Arctic Ice Extent: 2015 Struggles For First Place - 3

Fig. 1 Arctic Sea Ice Extent (Aug. 10)

As shown in Fig. 1, it looks as though this year will not be the record year.

It started off as the lowest year, but lost momentum in early June, then looked like it would make a comeback in late July and early August.

I have been tracking the 2015 events in this series (Arctic Ice Extent: 2015 Struggles For First Place, 2),

The full information is available at the NSIDC.

The thing to watch is probably whether or not 2016 starts off as the lowest extent early one like this year did.

That could be a trend ... melting from the other side rather than the end of summer side.

We shall see.

I will continue to update the two graphs below each day, until the extent begins to grow again in mid September.

UPDATES: (click on a graph to enlarge)

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As of (Aug. 9)

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As of (Aug. 10)

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The previous post in this series is here.

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Significance of methane feedback loops in the Arctic:

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