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2023 Arctic Report Card: image highlights

Section: News & Features

Published: December 12, 2023

year in the Arctic since records began in 1900. It was the 14th consecutive year in which Arctic temperatures exceeded the 1991-2020 average, according to the Arctic Report Card: Update for 2023. (The ...

Arctic Climate Perspectives

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

here: [ Comments from expert scientist: This is a very short video clip about the effects of Arctic Climate Change as observed by the Iñupiaq people living in Barrow, Alaska. It is a good introduction ...

Arctic sea ice ties for second lowest in 2016

Section: News & Features

Published: September 15, 2016

up and cool down than the atmosphere. The animation above shows changes in the yearly cycle of Arctic sea ice extent from 1979 (the first year of continuous satellite data on global sea ice cover) thr ...

2012 State of the Climate: Arctic Sea Ice

Section: News & Features

Published: July 30, 2013

record. Change Over Time. Overall, since satellite-based measurements began in the late 1970s, Arctic sea ice extent has decreased in all months and virtually all regions, with the exception of the Be ...

2019 Arctic sea ice extent ties for second-lowest summer minimum on record

Section: News & Features

Published: September 23, 2019

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reported that Arctic sea ice extent—the area where ice concentration is at least 15 percent—dipped to 1.60 million square miles (4.15 million square kilometer ...

Sea Ice Declines Boost Arctic Phytoplankton Productivity

Section: News & Features

Published: December 1, 2011

discovered that the amount of large phytoplankton species is decreasing in some areas of the Arctic, while smaller species are increasing. The size of phytoplankton matters: large zooplankton—the pref ...

2013 State of the Climate: Arctic sea ice

Section: News & Features

Published: July 12, 2014

it matters. Sea ice extent in the Arctic plays a critical role in the Earth system. Physically, its white surface reflects up to 80 percent of incoming sunlight during the long days of Northern Hemisp ...

Old Ice in Arctic is Vanishingly Rare

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: April 25, 2016

1:18 . Issuing Agency :. Climate. gov via YouTube. Page/s that contain this video :. Arctic Oceans, Sea Ice, and Coasts. Last modified : . 2017-01-03 16:22. ...

Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) 2017

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: July 10, 2019

November 2017. The SWIPA 2017 assessment is the fourth assessment from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme addressing Arctic climate issues and is a direct follow-up to the first Snow, Wate ...

Arctic sea ice winter maximum may be smallest on record

Section: News & Features

Published: March 20, 2015

maximum extent in early March. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Arctic sea ice extent reached 14.54 million square kilometers (5.61 million square miles) on February 25, and ...