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Old January 29th 17, 09:24 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default [CC] Global Arctic+Antarctic Sea-Ice extent ongoing minimum record, 20 January 2017

"N_Cook" wrote in message news
The lack of Antarctic sea-ice area is before Larsen C breaks off


Are you sure that the ice-shelf areas contribute to the overall sea ice
figures? My impression was that they didn't - I guess on the basis that are
(largely?) grounded ice fed by glaciers rather than floating sea ice. I
thought that the 'land' area boundaries of Antarctica on the extent maps
actually included the ice shelves. But ICBW and I'm sure someone here must
know for sure.