{"id":2750,"date":"2025-03-12T00:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-march-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T06:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:36:15","slug":"facts-about-the-arctic-in-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About the Arctic in March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After spending several weeks in the unfortunate position of lowest for the date, JAXA\/ViSHOP Arctic sea ice extent has just risen above 2015. By a mere 10,000 km\u00b2:<\/p>\n

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Despite the fact that JAXA extent is still rising, AWI extent has potentially already achieved its maximum value for 2025:<\/p>\n

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Somewhat belatedly, here is the PIOMAS sea ice thickness<\/a> map\u00a0for February 28th 2025:<\/p>\n

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At the end of February Arctic sea ice volume had increased to 19.32 thousand km\u00b3, still 2nd lowest for the date in the PIOMAS record:<\/p>\n

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For comparison purposes, here is the\u00a0\u201cnear real time\u201d\u00a0CryoSat-2\/SMOS merged thickness data<\/a>\u00a0from the Alfred Wegener Institute:<\/p>\n

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AWI have also released a new version<\/a> of their thickness product, incorporating additional data from the two Sentinel 3 satellites. The thickness data for February 28th, looks slightly different:<\/p>\n

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Reprocessed version 3.0 thickness data is not yet available, so for the moment here is the volume graph based on version 2.06 data. Note that data is missing for the period between February 10th and 23rd inclusive:<\/p>\n

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

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