In message , Graham P Davis
writes
Brian Wakem wrote:

The ice certainly covers a greater area that any of the past 7 years at
least:
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/...Ice_Extent.png

But it also consists of much less old ice than usual:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2009/040609.html


I also think that there will be a lead opening up from the N Atlantic
splitting the ice around the N pole.
James
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James Brown