Visualizing the 2012 Sea Ice Minimum - related image preview

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Visualizing the 2012 Sea Ice Minimum - related image preview

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Visualizing the 2012 Sea Ice Minimum - related image preview

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Visualizing the 2012 Sea Ice Minimum

These maps compare Arctic sea ice minimum extents in 1984 (a year with average coverage) and 2012 (the new record low).


NASA Earth Observatory image 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. Caption by Michon Scott and Mike Carlowicz.

Published September 27, 2012
Data acquired September 13, 2012

Source:
GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2