{"id":289797,"date":"2023-12-03T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T13:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=289797"},"modified":"2023-12-03T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T13:28:36","slug":"november-2023-arctic-ice-doing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=289797","title":{"rendered":"November 2023 Arctic Ice Doing\u00a0Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The animation shows the continuing growth of Arctic ice extent during November 2023, from day 305 to yesterday, day 334.  For all of the fuss over the September minimum, little is said about Arctic ice growing back rapidly; that\u2019s 4 Wadhams in October, plus another 2,2M in Nov to total 10.6M km2, or 10.6 Wadhams.  The Russian side on the left froze over in October, and now at the center bottom you can see Beaufort sea and Canadian Archipelago icing over completely. At top center Kara and Barents are adding normal ice extents. On the right side are the two lagging basins: Baffin and Hudson Bays, though freezing has started in Hudson bay in the last ten days.  That basin is shallow and likely to freeze over in the next two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The graph below shows the 30 days of November 2023 compared to the 17 year average (2006 to 2022 inclusive), to SII (Sea Ice Index) and some notable years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taking the average extent for the final 5 days of October 2023 compared to same for end of November, the added ice extent is 2.2M km2.\u00a0 The growth slowed at the end resulting in a 290k km2 deficit to average.\u00a0 Sea Ice Index (SII) is ~200k km2 lower than MASIE.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The table below shows the distribution of ice in the Arctic Ocean basins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Region<\/strong><\/td>2023334<\/strong><\/td>Day 334<\/strong><\/td>2023-Ave.<\/strong><\/td>2007334<\/strong><\/td>2023-2007<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
 (0) Northern_Hemisphere<\/td>10626375<\/td>10921303 <\/td>-294928 <\/td>11009948<\/td>-383574 <\/td><\/tr>
 (1) Beaufort_Sea<\/td>1070966<\/td>1069463 <\/td>1503 <\/td>1058872<\/td>12094 <\/td><\/tr>
 (2) Chukchi_Sea<\/td>722477<\/td>788533 <\/td>-66056 <\/td>687829<\/td>34649 <\/td><\/tr>
 (3) East_Siberian_Sea<\/td>1087137<\/td>1083567 <\/td>3570 <\/td>1082015<\/td>5122 <\/td><\/tr>
 (4) Laptev_Sea<\/td>897845<\/td>897822 <\/td>23 <\/td>897613<\/td>232 <\/td><\/tr>
 (5) Kara_Sea<\/td>799640<\/td>792930 <\/td>6710 <\/td>826319<\/td>-26679 <\/td><\/tr>
 (6) Barents_Sea<\/td>262074<\/td>248861 <\/td>13213 <\/td>216525<\/td>45549 <\/td><\/tr>
 (7) Greenland_Sea<\/td>607148<\/td>533255 <\/td>73893 <\/td>618844<\/td>-11696 <\/td><\/tr>
 (8) Baffin_Bay_Gulf_of_St._Lawrence<\/td>591970<\/td>671268 <\/td>-79298 <\/td>708497<\/td>-116527 <\/td><\/tr>
 (9) Canadian_Archipelago<\/td>854826<\/td>853266 <\/td>1560 <\/td>850249<\/td>4577 <\/td><\/tr>
 (10) Hudson_Bay<\/td>379047<\/td>574308 <\/td>-195261 <\/td>751382<\/td>-372335 <\/td><\/tr>
 (11) Central_Arctic<\/td>3220511<\/td>3192296 <\/td>28215 <\/td>3183073<\/td>37438 <\/td><\/tr>
 (12) Bering_Sea<\/td>47829<\/td>145731 <\/td>-97902 <\/td>72645<\/td>-24816 <\/td><\/tr>
 (13) Baltic_Sea<\/td>16936<\/td>3593 <\/td>13343 <\/td>0<\/td>16936 <\/td><\/tr>
 (14) Sea_of_Okhotsk<\/td>63947<\/td>62153 <\/td>1794 <\/td>53052<\/td>10895 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As shown in the table above, the deficit is due to lagging growth in Hudson and Baffin Bays, along with less ice in Chukchi and Bering Seas. Typically these basins are among the last to freeze.<\/p>\n\n\n

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