Thread: [CC] Global Arctic+Antarctic Sea-Ice extent ongoing minimum record,20 January 2017
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Old February 10th 17, 04:24 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default [CC] Global Arctic+Antarctic Sea-Ice extent ongoing minimum record,01 February 2017
On 10/02/2017 15:04, JohnD wrote:
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On track for a satellite-era record all-time minimum about 19 Feb 2017

Hmm, 2-3 weeks to go of course but not sure that there'll be a new
Antarctic record this year, seems to have asymptoted for now at least.
Problem seems to be that something like 90% of the Ant sea-ice does melt
each year and the remaining 10% is - for whatever reason (thickness,
local climate??) - fairly stubborn.

1994 seems to be the only comparable year for such a slow tail-off, but
much later , leaving "headroom" for an inflexion to a proper minimum?

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