{"id":1380,"date":"2024-02-24T12:26:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/the-2024-maximum-arctic-sea-ice-extent\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T22:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:57:15","slug":"the-2024-maximum-arctic-sea-ice-extent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/the-2024-maximum-arctic-sea-ice-extent\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2024 Maximum Arctic Sea Ice Extent for Quick Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe time has come\u201d, the Walrus said, \u201cto talk of many things<\/a>\u2026 Of why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

And also about the assorted different Arctic sea ice extent metrics, and in particular their respective maxima for 2024.<\/p>\n

Here is Zack Labe\u2019s overview<\/a> of previous years\u2019 maxima from a few days ago:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n

Zack\u2019s graph displays the\u00a0JAXA\/ViSHOP<\/a>\u00a0version of Arctic extent, so here too is JAXA\u2019s own graph of the current sea ice extent:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n

JAXA extent is based on data from the AMSR2 instrument on the GCOM-W satellite, and shows no evidence yet of a local maximum, let alone an annual one for 2024.<\/p>\n

However see also AWI\u2019s \u201chigh resolution\u201d AMSR2<\/a> area metric:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n

That has been declining since February 20th, and extent started declining yesterday:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n

With some more storms<\/a> set to shake up the Atlantic periphery over the next few days, could the 2024 maximum have already been reached for at least one of the many metrics?<\/p>\n

Watch this space!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}