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The ice below Buoy 2012M looks to have broke loose. The buoy was stationing at 79.20 N 14.69 W (noted above on 20 July) since deployment and now it is at 79.19 N, 14.87 W as disintegration of multi year ice along the NE shores of Greenland continues.
Ice pack in full
Arctic Sea Ice Blog commenters come up with all kinds of ways to make sense of or visualize what's going on with the ice pack, tweaking satellite data, 'declouding' images or compiling animations. In this blog post I want to show a couple of those efforts. Commenter Danp opened a thread on the A...
3.4 million km2. Laptev bite promises to be special this year, but some first year ice may stay around it.
Crowd-Source Prediction of September Sea Ice Extent (July report & call for August predictions)
In mid-June through early July, participants on the Arctic Sea Ice (ASI) blog posted 82 individual predictions for the mean NSIDC September Arctic sea ice extent. The median value of these 82 predictions was 3.2 million km2, with an interquartile range (approximately the middle 50% of prediction...
'Northwest Passage as good as open' article was on 31 July last year. With Nunavut colder than historic averages and while last year recorded above average temperature it is interesting to see how melt progresses. We may still see an earlier date of opening this year.
So, how slow was this start?
It's half time in the Arctic, and with the Summer Solstice and the first half of the melting season behind us, it's time for an assessment. It's clear that PAC-2013, this year's persistent Arctic cyclone, kept the Arctic in a cold and cloudy grip, causing a very slow start to the melting seaso...
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