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Facts About the Arctic in October 2024

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The JAXA extent graph is currently not updating, so let’s begin this month with the latest AMSR2 sea ice concentration map from the Alfred Wegener Institute. Click the image to see a ~10 Mb animation of the last four weeks:

Note in particular the restart of export into the East Greenland Sea via the Fram Strait:

and the movement of ice within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago:

The PIOMAS gridded thickness data for September 2024 has been released:

Note that there is only one small area remaining with ice over 3 meters thick. Zooming in on the CAA, and comparing with last month, it can be seen that what little remains of the thickest ice has been moved by recent winds west across the the Prince Gustaf Adolf Sea:

The most recent weekly chart from the Canadian Ice Service reveals that the Parry Channel remains almost entirely free of sea ice:

Watch this space!

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