Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record

Since satellites began monitoring sea ice in 1979, researchers have observed a decline in the average extent of Arctic sea ice in every month of the year.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR-2) sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water (GCOM-W1) satellite, the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus-7 satellite, and analyses from Parkinson and DiGirolamo (2016). Caption by Maria-Jose Vinas Garcia, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published September 16, 2016
Data acquired 1979 - September 10, 2016

Sources:

DMSP > SSM/I

DMSP > SSMIS

GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2

Nimbus 7 > SMMR