{"id":3583,"date":"2025-12-05T15:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-december-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:50:04","slug":"facts-about-the-arctic-in-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-december-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About the Arctic in December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The latest Alfred Wegener Institute\u00a0sea ice concentration map<\/a>\u00a0shows\u00a0that the Pacific side of the Central Arctic Basin is now almost completely refrozen:<\/p>\n

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On the Atlantic side of the Arctic the Kara Sea is rapidly refreezing:<\/p>\n

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However, sea ice extent in the Barents Sea and Baffin Bay is currently lowest for the date in the AMSR2 record:<\/p>\n

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Pan Arctic JAXA\/ViSHOP extent<\/a>\u00a0is currently lowest for the date in the satellite era:<\/p>\n

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Looking at sea ice volume next, at the end of November PIOMAS volume<\/a> was 9.20 thousand km\u00b3, lowest for the date (in the satellite era).<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the associated sea ice thickness map:<\/p>\n

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Here too is the Alfred Wegener Institute\u2019s\u00a0CryoSat-2\/Sentinel 3\/SMOS Arctic sea ice thickness\u00a0<\/a>map at the end of November:<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the \u201cmeasured\u201d data suggests that sea ice in the central Arctic is thicker than the PIOMAS model shows:<\/p>\n

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Watch this space!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The latest Alfred Wegener Institute\u00a0sea ice concentration map\u00a0shows\u00a0that the Pacific side of the Central Arctic Basin is now almost completely refrozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3584,"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-3583","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\/3583","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=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}