Consequently, temperatures up to 6 degrees Celsius or more above the long-term average were prevalent on the East Siberian coast, which led to early snow melting and thawing soils (you can find more i
“May 2018 was the warmest May in Germany since 1881, and the second consecutive month (together with April 2018) with a new record high.” That was the German Weather Service’s review of the current we
After the sea-ice extent in the Artic reached its winter maximum on 12 March 2019, the melting season in the North Pole region began and soon reached an all-time low for the time of year (23 April 201
While Europe languished under a sweltering heat wave in the summer of 2019, Siberia was struck by massive wildfires, and record-breaking summer temperatures were observed in Germany. But the Arctic, t
On 11 September the sea-ice extent (sea-ice concentration > 15 %) was 3.94 million km² (see Figure 1) and on 3 September 2019 it had already decreased to 3.82 million km², the lowest level so far this
According to analyses from the University of Bremen’s Institute of Environmental Physics, the mean sea-ice extent in the Arctic this October was only 5.44 million km², which is more than 443,000 km² b
The seasonal Arctic sea-ice retreat was quite rapid in the first week of July but slowed during the rest of the month (see Fig.1). The mean extent for July 2021 was 7.72 million km 2 . As such, it was
In September, the summer sea-ice melting ends in the Arctic. In other words, on a certain day of the month, the sea-ice cover reaches its lowest extent for the year and then begins growing again, beca
This was a few thousand km 2 below the previous record low from 1997. The mean sea-ice extent for February, at 2.4 million km², was another historical low (Figure 2). This minimum is the result of ver
In contrast, the pack ice is now steadily growing in the Antarctic. This year, observations of the sea-ice extent development in both hemispheres reveal a trend clearly below the long-term average. Th
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