{"id":298373,"date":"2024-01-24T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=298373"},"modified":"2024-01-24T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:08:15","slug":"arctic-grows-a-month-of-ice-in-3-weeks-january-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=298373","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Grows a Month of Ice in 3 Weeks January\u00a02024"},"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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Impressive Arctic ice recovery continued in January, growing a month\u2019s worth in just three weeks, as seen in the animation below:<\/p>\n\n\n

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In three weeks of January 2024, the Arctic added nearly a full Wadham of ice (1M km2). The animation shows Hudson Bay (lower right) freezing completely.  Just above Hudson, you can see the Gulf of St. Lawrence icing over, and Baffin Bay adding ice, extending fast ice all the way to Newfoundland, now up to 64% of its annual maximum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the extreme and lower left, Okhotsk and Bering Seas also grow rapidly. Okhotsk grew ice extent up to 914k, 81% of its max last March.\u00a0 Bering grew up to 514k km2, 68% of its max.\u00a0 At the top Kara freezes over and Barents and Greenland Seas add ice to their margins.The graph below shows the January ice recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note the average January ends at 14.36 km2 while 2024 has already reached 14.33 km2, up from 13.39 km2 at the start, and presently  288k km2 above average. SII started slightly lower than MASIE and tracked quite closely since. Note that other recent years have varied below the 18-year average at month end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The table below shows year-end ice extents in the various Arctic basins compared to the 18-year averages and some recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Region<\/strong><\/td>2024022<\/strong><\/td>Day 22<\/strong><\/td>2024-Ave.<\/strong><\/td>2018022<\/strong><\/td>2024-2018<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
 (0) Northern_Hemisphere<\/td>14333601<\/td>14045488 <\/td>288112 <\/td>13505957<\/td>827644 <\/td><\/tr>
 (1) Beaufort_Sea<\/td>1070983<\/td>1070317 <\/td>667 <\/td>1070445<\/td>538 <\/td><\/tr>
 (2) Chukchi_Sea<\/td>966006<\/td>965999 <\/td>7 <\/td>965971<\/td>35 <\/td><\/tr>
 (3) East_Siberian_Sea<\/td>1087137<\/td>1087131 <\/td>6 <\/td>1087120<\/td>18 <\/td><\/tr>
 (4) Laptev_Sea<\/td>897845<\/td>897837 <\/td>8 <\/td>897845<\/td>0 <\/td><\/tr>
 (5) Kara_Sea<\/td>932571<\/td>910022 <\/td>22549 <\/td>891776<\/td>40795 <\/td><\/tr>
 (6) Barents_Sea<\/td>712531<\/td>530554 <\/td>181977 <\/td>322465<\/td>390067 <\/td><\/tr>
 (7) Greenland_Sea<\/td>703581<\/td>601855 <\/td>101726 <\/td>465828<\/td>237753 <\/td><\/tr>
 (8) Baffin_Bay_Gulf_of_St._Lawrence<\/td>1050488<\/td>1239519 <\/td>-189031 <\/td>1330666<\/td>-280179 <\/td><\/tr>
 (9) Canadian_Archipelago<\/td>854860<\/td>853382 <\/td>1479 <\/td>853109<\/td>1752 <\/td><\/tr>
 (10) Hudson_Bay<\/td>1260903<\/td>1260695 <\/td>209 <\/td>1260838<\/td>66 <\/td><\/tr>
 (11) Central_Arctic<\/td>3230107<\/td>3203377 <\/td>26730 <\/td>3165195<\/td>64912 <\/td><\/tr>
 (12) Bering_Sea<\/td>513853<\/td>600796 <\/td>-86943 <\/td>343164<\/td>170689 <\/td><\/tr>
 (13) Baltic_Sea<\/td>93892<\/td>56072 <\/td>37820 <\/td>44364<\/td>49528 <\/td><\/tr>
 (14) Sea_of_Okhotsk<\/td>914275<\/td>720482 <\/td>193793 <\/td>782100<\/td>132175 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s ice extent is 288k km2 or 2.1% above average.  Only Baffin Bay and Bering have deficits to average, more than offset by surpluses elsewhere, espcially Greenland, Barents and Okhotsk seas. Many of the others are already maxed out.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Illustration by Eleanor Lutz shows Earth\u2019s seasonal climate changes. If played in full screen, the four corners present views from top, bottom and sides. It is a visual representation of scientific datasets measuring Arctic ice extents and NH snow cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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