12 September 2012
Still Melting North of 60
Posted by Dan Satterfield
NPR did a very good piece today on the Arctic Sea ice today and included is an interview with Dr. Jennifer Francis at Rutgers who I mentioned in the previous post (and several others). You can listen to the piece here. There is also an eye-opening video (top of this page) showing the drop in the VOLUME (different from aerial coverage) of the ice as estimated by the PIOMAS Model. Hat tip to Joe Romm for the video. He has more on it here.
The melt continues across the High Arctic north of 60 degrees latitude today with the daily ice area from NSIDC dipping to a new all time low today of 3,466,460 square kilometers. Far below the previous record set in 2007.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
Reed Maxwell said on 12 September 2012
What a great post on an important topic! We’ve been following the sea ice extent a little bit in my graduate hydrology class, I’ll be sure to use your great animation in today’s lecture. Thanks!