Alaska Climate Research Center

The Alaska State Climate Center
The Alaska State Climate Center
The Alaska State Climate Center
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Our departure maps are updated daily to show the difference between the current temperature and expected temperature, based on 30 years of previously values.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent: January 11, 2025

January 11, 2025: The Arctic sea ice has continued to increase this week but at a lesser rate of 3.09% (as opposed to last week’s increase rate of 3.25%), from the level on 01/02/2025 of 12.525 M km2 to 12.924 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ...
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2024 in review (preliminary data)

This post will be updated as additional data become available. At the global scale, 2024 is “effectively certain” to be the warmest year on record in the ERA5 reanalysis as per the Copernicus Climate Change Service, breaking the previous record from 2023. In Alaska, the mean annual air temperature in 2023 was slightly above the ...
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