As our colleagues at the German overwintering station Neumayer III can attest, that doesn’t necessarily mean the weather will get warmer, but at least towards the end of the month they can look forwar
In the course of the past few decades, the sea-ice extent in the Antarctic has been characterised by significant variability – both spatially and chronologically. For example, for the observational pe
If we review the sea-ice extent in the Antarctic over the past few weeks, we can see an exciting trend – and not just in our potential interpretations, but also when we compare the current situation t
In April 2017, sea-ice physicist Stefanie Arndt from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven proved once again that necessity is the mother of invention: she and her colleagues were wondering how
The sea-ice extent in the Antarctic is slowly but surely nearing its seasonal minimum, which we expect to see roughly a month from now. With 3.36 million km² of pack ice covering the Antarctic contine
While the summer minimum was reached in the Antarctic on 19 February 2020 (at 2.68 million km²), in the Arctic the extent has been growing steadily since the end of February, and hasn’t yet reached it
On 4 March 2020, the Arctic sea-ice extent reached its winter maximum at 14.98 million km² and has been steadily declining ever since. The value is now hovering near the bot-tom limit of two standard
The record-breaking journey began when Stefanie Arndt and Leonard Rossmann from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven placed the buoy on the
The sea-ice extent in the Antarctic is far more variable than in the Arctic. In February, the mean area was 2.52 million km², the second-lowest reading since the advent of satellite measurement and on
The sea-ice extent in the Arctic is broadly considered to be an important indicator for the on-going climate change. This year, the month of October, in which the freezing season begins and new ice is
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