These NASA provided images show the minimum
arctic sea ice concentration in 1979, at left, and in 2003.
Not exact matches
I have downloaded the HADISST
ice data and computed
sea ice extent for both the
arctic and antarctic (based on 15 %
concentration to be consistent with NSIDC data from the satellite era).
While the 2010 melt season started with more multi-year
ice (MYI) in the Beaufort and Chukchi
seas than seen in recent years and an overall greater percentage of MYI
arctic - wide, by the end of August nearly all of this MYI had melted out or
ice concentration had fallen below 40 %.