On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:43:57 +0100, James Brown wrote:

See:

http://iup.physik.uni-bremen.de:8084...mum2011-en.pdf

James

Too close to call yet. Here's NSIDC monthly report:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2011/090611.html

Regardless of area or extent, volume appears to be at a record low.

http://tinyurl.com/48jq3db

NW and NE Passages are both open, which didn't happen in 2007.

Could there be a NNE Passage open soon? ;-) A route north of Svalbard,
Franz Josef's Land, Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands has
almost made it this year.
http://iup.physik.uni-bremen.de:8084...SRE_visual.png

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