Arctic Sea Ice Maximum 2014 - related image preview

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Arctic Sea Ice Maximum 2014

Ice cover in the Sea of Okhotsk and Barents Sea are below normal, while other areas are closer to the average. But the overall trend of shrinking sea ice continues.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR-2) sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water (GCOM-W1) satellite and the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus-7 satellite. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published April 10, 2014
Data acquired March 21, 2014

Source:
GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2