Arctic sea ice loss: a review

During this year’s melt season, the sea ice in the Arctic reached the lowest extent on record, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported this week. What does this mean for the future of the Polar sea, and how quickly is that future coming? Check out Andy Revkin’s DotEarth post today, for great visuals and a broad view of the topic (and more to come, he states). Revkin quotes ATMO‘s Cecilia Bitz and OCEAN‘s Jamie Morison in his coverage of sea ice.

And take a look at this visualization by “amateur Arctic watcher, Andy Lee Robinson”, using data from the PIOMAS model from APL — very interesting!