Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Annual Low - related image preview

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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Annual Low

The minimum sea ice extent in 2015 appears to be the fourth lowest in the satellite record.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water (GCOM-W1) satellite. Caption by Maria-Jose Vinas, with Adam Voiland.

Published September 16, 2015
Data acquired September 11, 2015

Source:
GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2