{"id":835,"date":"2023-09-01T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2023\/09\/01\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-september-2023\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T01:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:07:06","slug":"facts-about-the-arctic-in-september-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2023\/09\/01\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-september-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About the Arctic in September 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There\u2019s lots of coverage specifically about assorted Arctic sea ice extent metrics over on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/2023\/08\/the-2023-arctic-sea-ice-minimum-extent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023 Minimum Extent<\/a>\u201d thread. However we\u2019ll start the September open thread ball rolling with a couple of cross posted images.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of August JAXA daily extent was 7th lowest for the date, at 4.49 million km<em>\u00b2<\/em> :<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JAXA-2023-08-31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26010\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JAXA-2023-08-31-1024x469-1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JAXA-2023-08-31-1024x469-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JAXA-2023-08-31-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JAXA-2023-08-31-768x352.png 768w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JAXA-2023-08-31.png 1109w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The median prediction of the contributors to the August call by the Sea Ice Prediction Network for the September <strong>monthly average<\/strong> extent is 4.6 million km<em>\u00b2<\/em> :<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SIPN_2023_August.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25996\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SIPN_2023_August-1024x739-1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SIPN_2023_August-1024x739-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SIPN_2023_August-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SIPN_2023_August-768x554.png 768w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SIPN_2023_August.png 1334w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"739\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>That is of course based on the NSIDC\u2019s extent metric, which currently looks like this:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Charctic-2023-08-31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26016\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Charctic-2023-08-31.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Charctic-2023-08-31.png 756w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Charctic-2023-08-31-300x295.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"744\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Watch this space!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s lots of coverage specifically about assorted Arctic sea ice extent metrics over on the \u201c2023 Minimum Extent\u201d thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836,"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-835","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\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}