{"id":3351,"date":"2025-08-05T00:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-august-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:50:23","slug":"arctic-discoveries-offer-stunning-authentic-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/arctic-discoveries-offer-stunning-authentic-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Discoveries Offer Stunning Authentic Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>At the beginning of August\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ads.nipr.ac.jp\/vishop\/#\/extent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JAXA\/ViSHOP extent<\/a>\u00a0is in a \u201cstatistical tie\u201d for 3rd lowest for the date in the satellite era:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JAXA-Extent-2025-08-03.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35908\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JAXA-Extent-2025-08-03-1024x469-1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JAXA-Extent-2025-08-03-1024x469-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JAXA-Extent-2025-08-03-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JAXA-Extent-2025-08-03-768x352.png 768w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JAXA-Extent-2025-08-03.png 1108w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Extent has been declining rapidly for the past few days, and further losses look likely in the Beaufort Sea on either side of an arm of high concentration ice visible in the Alfred Wegener Institute\u2019s map of sea ice concenration:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SIC-LEADS_20250803.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35909\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SIC-LEADS_20250803-1024x919-1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SIC-LEADS_20250803-1024x919-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SIC-LEADS_20250803-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SIC-LEADS_20250803-768x689.png 768w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SIC-LEADS_20250803-1536x1378.png 1536w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SIC-LEADS_20250803.png 1720w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"919\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The ice on the Atlantic side of the Arctic is starting to look highly fragmented, all the way to the North Pole.<\/p>\n<p>The PIOMAS gridded thickness data for July 2025 has just been released. The Beaufort arm is also visible as an area of thicker ice. There is also a parallel arm of ice around a meter thick extending into the East Siberian Sea:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PIOMAS-thickness_on_2025-07-31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35910\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PIOMAS-thickness_on_2025-07-31.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PIOMAS-thickness_on_2025-07-31.png 880w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PIOMAS-thickness_on_2025-07-31-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PIOMAS-thickness_on_2025-07-31-768x503.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The associated volume graph reveals a modelled Arctic sea ice volume of 6.57 thousand km\u00b3 on July 31st, which is 2nd lowest for the date:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PIOMAS-volume_on_2025-07-31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35911\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PIOMAS-volume_on_2025-07-31.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PIOMAS-volume_on_2025-07-31.png 889w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PIOMAS-volume_on_2025-07-31-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PIOMAS-volume_on_2025-07-31-768x554.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"641\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Watch this space!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ice on the Atlantic side of the Arctic is starting to look highly fragmented, all the way to the North Pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3352,"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-3351","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\/3351","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=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}