{"id":2238,"date":"2024-09-24T19:11:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T17:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/arctic-sea-ice-extent-levels-2024-minimum-set\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T01:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:07:22","slug":"arctic-sea-ice-extent-levels-2024-minimum-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/arctic-sea-ice-extent-levels-2024-minimum-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic sea ice extent levels off; 2024 minimum set"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On September 11, Arctic sea ice\u00a0likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.28\u00a0million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles). The 2024 minimum\u00a0is\u00a0the seventh lowest\u00a0in the nearly 46-year satellite record. The last 18 years, from 2007 to 2024, are the lowest 18 sea ice extents in the satellite record.<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/083123_cg_arctic-atlantification_feat-1024x577.webp\" alt=\"A wind pattern known as the Arctic Dipole helps control how much warm, salty Atlantic Ocean water enters the Arctic Ocean via the Fram Strait (shown) between Greenland and Norway\u2019s Svalbard archipelago. That influx of Atlantic water in turn influences the rate of Arctic sea ice melting. deadlyphoto.com\/Alamy Stock Photo\" class=\"wp-image-2267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/083123_cg_arctic-atlantification_feat-1024x577.webp 1024w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/083123_cg_arctic-atlantification_feat-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/083123_cg_arctic-atlantification_feat-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/083123_cg_arctic-atlantification_feat.webp 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A wind pattern known as the Arctic Dipole helps control how much warm, salty Atlantic Ocean water enters the Arctic Ocean via the Fram Strait (shown) between Greenland and Norway\u2019s Svalbard archipelago. That influx of Atlantic water in turn influences the rate of Arctic sea ice melting.\n\ndeadlyphoto.com\/Alamy Stock Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 11, Arctic sea ice\u00a0likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.28\u00a0million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2267,"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-2238","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\/2238","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=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}