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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: July 11, 2024

July 11, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a greater rate of 9.17% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 6.88%), from the level on 07/04/2024 of 9.402 M km2 to 8.540 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.474 M km2 on 07/04/2024 to a […]

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: July 4, 2024

July 4, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a greater rate of 6.88 % (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 5.31%), from the level on 06/27/2024 of 10.097 M km2 to 9.402 M km2 for this week. The  negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.409 M km2 on 06/27/2024 to

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: June 27, 2024

June 27, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a greater rate of 5.31% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 2.93%), from the level on 06/20/2024 of 10.663 M km2 to 10.097 M km2 for this week. The  negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.399 M km2 on 06/20/2024 to a

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: June 6, 2024

June 6, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a greater (double) rate of 5.12% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 2.53%), from the level on 05/30/2024 of 12.097 M km2 to 11.478 M km2 for this week. The  negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.163 M km2 on 05/30/2024 to

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: May 31, 2024

May 31, 2024:  The  sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a lower rate of 2.53% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 3.21%), from the level on 05/23/2024 of 12.411 M km2 to 12.097 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.173 M km2 on 05/23/2024 to a lesser

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: May 23, 2024

May 23, 2024:  The  sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a higher rate of 3.21% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 2.72%), from the level on 05/16/2024 of 12.822 M km2 to 12.411 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.0965 M km2 on 05/16/2024 to a greater

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: May 16, 2024

May 16, 2024:  The  sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a higher rate of 2.72% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 1.44%), from the level on 05/09/2024 of 13.181 M km2 to 12.822 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.0882 M km2 on 05/09/2024 to a greater

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