Alfred Wegener Institute Sea Ice Extent: “Both Polar Regions At NORMAL LEVELSâ€â€¦Siberia 6-8°C Colder
By P Gosselin on 9. March 2021
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Alfred Wegener Institute: Sea ice development in both polar regions at normal level
On 31 January, 2021, the sea-ice extent in the Arctic was 14.29 million km², roughly the same level as in the previous two years. In terms of the long-term trend for the month, January 2021 comes in at 7th place with 13.63 million km²:
Source: AWI, University of Bremen
In January sea-ice grew at a rate of 47,518 km² per day. This represents a daily growth almost exactly the size of Lower Saxony (or Mississippi).
Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute reports that current winter season in the Arctic is particularly influenced by the temperature anomaly, which in December produced temperatures up to 5°C above the long-term average for 1971 to 2000 in the Laptev Sea and Central Arctic, and over East Greenland and Northern Canada.
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