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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: October 17, 2024

October 17, 2024: The Arctic sea ice has continued to increase this week but at a greater rate of 9.31% (as opposed to last week’s increase rate of 5.91%), from the level on 10/10/2024 of 5.146 M km2 to 5.674 M km2 for this week.

Plot Compiled by: Howard J. Diamond, PhD; Climate Science Program Manager at NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory
Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -1.732 M km2 on 10/10/2024 to a greater negative anomaly of -1.901 M km2 on 10/17/2024, and so more anomalously negative for this time of year. 

Plot Compiled by: Howard J. Diamond, PhD; Climate Science Program Manager at NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory
Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).