Daily Arctic Sea Ice Area
The Nansen Center monitors daily the Arctic Sea ice area using various satellite data sources. The latest satellite data are from 07/30/2010 when the Arctic ice area was 5315945.0 km2. The minimum in 2008 was observed on 07/28 being 5289095.7 km2. For comparison the minimum ice area ever observed in the Arctic was 3293737.4 km2 on 08/07 in year 2009. Further information at http://arctic-roos.org/observations.
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