Alaska Climate Research Center
August 25, 2022: over the past week, the sea ice has now decreased by a higher rate from last week of 9.18%, from the level on 08/18/2022 of 5.929 M km2 to 5.385 M km2 for this week. We are still a few weeks out from bottoming out for the year and at this point we have taken a bit of turn […]
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August 18, 2022: over the past week, the sea ice has now decreased by a higher rate from last week of 6.47%, from the level on 08/11/2022 of 6.339 M km2 to 5.929 M km2 for this week. We are now about a month out from bottoming out for the year and at this point we are at the highest point of
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August 11, 2022: Over the past week, the sea ice has now decreased by a lower rate from last week of 4.22%, from the level on 08/04/2022 of 6.618 M km2 to 6.339 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower from the anomaly of -1.225 M km2 on 08/04/2022 to a less negative anomaly of -1.044 M
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August 4, 2022: Over the past week, the sea ice has now decreased by a lower rate from last week of 6.31%, from the level on 07/28/2022 of 7.064 M km2 to 6.618 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower from the anomaly of -1.292 M km2 on 07/28/2022 to a less negative anomaly of -1.225 M
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July 28, 2022: Over the past week, the sea ice has now decreased by a higher rate from last week of 10.91%, from the level on 07/21/2022 of 7.929 M km2 to 7.064 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower from the anomaly of -0.993 M km2 on 07/21/2022 to a more negative anomaly of -1.292 M
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July 21, 2022: Over the past week, the sea ice has now decreased by a higher rate of 7.18% from the level on 07/14/2022 of 8.542 M km2 to 7.929 M km2 for this week.
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July 14, 2022: Over the past week, the sea ice has now decreased by a slightly higher rate of 6.18% from the level on 07/07/2022 of 9.105 M km2 to 8.542 M km2 for this week.
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July 7, 2022: Over the past week, the sea ice has now decreased by a higher rate of 6.09% from the level on 06/30/2022 of 9.695 M km2 to 9.105 M km2 for this week.
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June 30, 2022: Over the past week, the sea ice has now decreased by a slightly lower rate of 5.08% from the level on 06/23/2022 of 10.214 M km2 to 9.695 M km2 for this week.
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Alaska wildfires are spreading at a rapid pace. There have been 365 fires confirmed by the end of June 2022 (ref.: Alaska Interagency Coordination Center Wildland Fire Dashboard). Almost 1.8 Mio acres have burned, which exceeds the end-of-June acreage of any record fire year (i.e. 2004, 2005) to date since observational data exist. Abnormally dry
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