8/25 University Of Bremen AMSR Arctic Ice Imagery - Really Thinning Fast, Esp. On Siberian Side

[hatrack]

Phenomenal - some grids are showing 50% or less coverage within 150+/- miles of the Pole on the East Siberian/Chukchi Sea side of 90N.

http://iup.physik.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/arctic_AMSRE_nic.png

[phantom power]

1. Ha! I told you all that red stuff was going to disappear! It's turning green already.

[htuttle]

2. Does the North Pole Cam have pontoons attached to it?

[GliderGuider]

3. I worry about Santa Claus. I really do.

I know Dancer, Prancer, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph et al will be OK because reindeer can swim, but the thought of all those waterlogged elves brings a tear to my Grinchly eye.

[KingofNewOrleans]

4. Looks like the lower (coastal) NE passage is trying to

open up too, which would make circumnavigation of the arctic theoretically possible.

[NickB79]

5. Can I make a suggestion for your future polar melting posts?

Would it be possible to post not just the current ice map, but also the one you originally posted a month or more ago when you started these updates? That way, newcomers to the E/E forum can see just how fast the ice is melting. Keep up the good work :hi:

[KingofNewOrleans]

6. Here's from a month ago

http://iup.physik.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsredata/asi_daygrid_swath/l1a/n6250/2007/jul/asi-n6250-20070726-v5_nic.png


Here's a link to the web site:

http://iup.physik.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/amsre.html

Towards the bottom of the page, there's a link to a data archive that is searchable daily back to 2003.

The NSIDC has a monthly Sea Ice Index that can be viewed going back to 1979,

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/