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Sluggish Start for Arctic Sea Ice Freeze-Up

Early ice retreat amid warm Arctic air temperatures set the stage for the slow refreeze in 2020.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and MERRA-2 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC. Story by Kathryn Hansen, with input from Julienne Stroeve/University College London/NSIDC.

Published December 8, 2020
Data acquired October 2020

Sources:
DMSP > SSM/I
DMSP > SSMIS
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