The Northern Sea Route in 2023
Data from the Northern Sea Route General Administration web site about the current positions of ships voyaging along the Northern Sea Route reveal that the liquified natural gas carrier Fedor Litke is currently following the icebreaker Sibir through the East…
The Northwest Passage in 2023
Prompted by a comment by Tom in the June open thread, the time has evidently come to open the 2023 Northwest Passage passage thread. First of all let’s get our bearings with the help of this map of the area:…
Facts About the Arctic in June 2023
By way of a change, which is allegedly as good as a rest, let’s start the new month with a very pretty and almost cloud free “pseudo-colour” image of the Lena Delta and adjacent areas of the Laptev Sea: “False…
Facts About the Arctic in May 2023
At the beginning of May AWI’s high resolution AMSR2 extent metric is at the top of the historical range: After a period of melt in the East Greenland Sea, export of sea ice from the Central Arctic via the Fram…