{"id":263212,"date":"2023-06-21T19:20:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T17:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263212"},"modified":"2023-06-21T19:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T17:20:23","slug":"surplus-arctic-ice-mid-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263212","title":{"rendered":"Surplus Arctic Ice Mid June 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The graph for the last four weeks shows that 2023 Arctic ice continues to exceed the 17 year average from mid April to mid May. SII (Sea Ice Index) tracked MASIE with higher extents most of this period, while ending nearly the same.  Meanwhile, other years, especially 2010 and 2020 were losing ice much more rapidly than average.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is this important?  All the claims of global climate emergency depend on dangerously higher temperatures, lower sea ice, and rising sea levels.  The lack of additional warming is documented in a post Satellite Temps Hit Bottom: February 2023<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lack of acceleration in sea levels along coastlines has been discussed also.  See USCS Warnings of Coastal Floodings<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, a longer term perspective is informative:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The table below shows the distribution of Sea Ice across the Arctic Regions, on average, this year and 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Region<\/strong><\/td>2023166<\/strong><\/td>Day 166 Average<\/strong><\/td>2023-Ave.<\/strong><\/td>2010166<\/strong><\/td>2023-2010<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
 (0) Northern_Hemisphere<\/td>11010785<\/td>10850760 <\/td>160025 <\/td>10534077<\/td>476708 <\/td><\/tr>
 (1) Beaufort_Sea<\/td>1004738<\/td>970162 <\/td>34577 <\/td>933194<\/td>71545 <\/td><\/tr>
 (2) Chukchi_Sea<\/td>866965<\/td>797144 <\/td>69820 <\/td>839873<\/td>27092 <\/td><\/tr>
 (3) East_Siberian_Sea<\/td>1045863<\/td>1050728 <\/td>-4865 <\/td>1068901<\/td>-23038 <\/td><\/tr>
 (4) Laptev_Sea<\/td>806824<\/td>768140 <\/td>38684 <\/td>772185<\/td>34639 <\/td><\/tr>
 (5) Kara_Sea<\/td>638316<\/td>715045 <\/td>-76730 <\/td>717539<\/td>-79224 <\/td><\/tr>
 (6) Barents_Sea<\/td>114873<\/td>199057 <\/td>-84184 <\/td>138264<\/td>-23391 <\/td><\/tr>
 (7) Greenland_Sea<\/td>811202<\/td>565292 <\/td>245910 <\/td>524612<\/td>286589 <\/td><\/tr>
 (8) Baffin_Bay_Gulf_of_St._Lawrence<\/td>849180<\/td>711581 <\/td>137599 <\/td>667457<\/td>181723 <\/td><\/tr>
 (9) Canadian_Archipelago<\/td>792429<\/td>798400 <\/td>-5971 <\/td>766642<\/td>25787 <\/td><\/tr>
 (10) Hudson_Bay<\/td>802506<\/td>984719 <\/td>-182214 <\/td>826781<\/td>-24275 <\/td><\/tr>
 (11) Central_Arctic<\/td>3239185<\/td>3220413 <\/td>18772 <\/td>3206453<\/td>32732 <\/td><\/tr>
 (12) Bering_Sea<\/td>9490<\/td>35600 <\/td>-26110 <\/td>21317<\/td>-11827 <\/td><\/tr>
 (13) Baltic_Sea<\/td>0<\/td>243 <\/td>-243 <\/td>0<\/td>0 <\/td><\/tr>
(14) Sea_of_Okhotsk<\/td>28074<\/td>95869 <\/td>-67795 <\/td>49697<\/td>-21623 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Overall, the extent is above average by 160k km2, or 1.5%.\u00a0 The main deficits are in Barents, Kara, Hudson Bay and Okhotsk, more than offset by surpluses especially in Baffin Bay, Greenland and Chukchi seas. Note that Arctic extent will now go below 11 Wadhams heading toward its August minimum.\u00a0 2010 was nearly 1\/2 Wadham below average on day 166.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overall, the extent is above average by 160k km2, or 1.5%.\u00a0 The main deficits are in Barents, Kara, Hudson Bay and Okhotsk, more than offset by surpluses especially in Baffin Bay, Greenland and Chukchi seas. Note that Arctic extent will now go below 11 Wadhams heading toward its August minimum.\u00a0 2010 was nearly 1\/2 Wadham below average on day 166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":263221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/001CLIMATE2-superJumbo.jpg?fit=2048%2C1152&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-16tm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":288914,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288914","url_meta":{"origin":263212,"position":0},"title":"Mid-Nov. 2023 Arctic Ice Grows to 10\u00a0Wadhams","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/27\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"From Science Matters By\u00a0Ron Clutz The animation shows the rapid growth of Arctic ice extent during November 2023, from day 304 to yesterday, day 319.\u00a0 For all of the fuss over the September minimum, little is said about Arctic ice growing back rapidly; 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