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Growing Pains: Arctic Sea Ice at Record Lows

The seasonal freeze-up in the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas has been very slow, setting both daily and monthly record lows.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published December 6, 2016
Data acquired 1978 - 2016

Source:
DMSP > SSM/I