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The melting months are now about 1 month earlier than at the start of the series, while the freezing months are now about 1 month later than at the start of the series.
Cycle plots of Arctic sea ice
The downward trends in minimum sea ice area, extent and volume have become stunningly obvious to anyone who sees images such as the top row in this blog's long-term graphs page. But what about trends in annual maximum, or the in-between seasons? Cycle plots (Cox 2006) provide an unorthodox but i...
Posted by: Jeffrey Davis | August 24, 2012 at 16:56
"I'm just eyeballing a graph, and I know how inaccurate such things are, but the NSIDC graph on its front page to me looks 5 standard deviations from the mean. Maybe more."
I don't have my spreadsheet in front of me but last I checked a day or two ago, NSIDC extent was over 7 standard deviations below the 1979-2000 mean. Only during part of October 2007 has there been a larger deviation measured this way.
Record dominoes 6: IJIS sea ice extent
There are several scientific organisations that keep an eye on the Arctic sea ice cover and put out graphs to inform us of the amount of ice that is left. You can see most, if not all, of them on the ASI Graphs webpage. I expect the record on most of these graphs to be broken in weeks to come. -...
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