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The Long Decline of Arctic Sea Ice

Forty years of satellite data show that 2020 was just the latest in a decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center courtesy of Julienne Stroeve/Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published January 6, 2021
Data acquired 1979 - 2019

Sources:
DMSP > SSM/I
DMSP > SSMIS
Nimbus 7 > SMMR