On Jul 13, 4:26*pm, "peter clarke" wrote:
"Martin Rowley" wrote in message

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7503060.stm

I remember hand-plotting the data from these ice-floe stations in the 60s.

Martin.

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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N * Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

There are 2 points I would like to make about the current state of the
arctic sea-ice.

The first is *at:-

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/i...s/N_timeseries.

This shows that the sea-ice is disappearing *less rapidly than in 2007 and
secondly:-

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/...&fd=25&fy=2008...

The ice at 10 July seemed to be melting less quickly along the north coast
of Asia than last year.I realise that there may
*be errors in the way the evidence is collected and that not too much should
be read into this relatively small
piece of data anyway. Nevertheless, it is intriguing and it will be
interesting to see how the rest of the melting season develops.

Peter Clarke
Ewell, Epsom

Peter,

Using you links it looks as though the ice in 1998 was similar to that
today.
http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/...&sd=12&sy=1998

However, since there is less multi-year ice this year than in 1998,
presumablly the final result in September will be different.

Cheers, Alastair.