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2013 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum

The amount of Arctic Ocean covered by ice was significantly more than the record low of 2012, but still well below the long-term average.


NASA Earth Observatory image 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. Sea ice line plot and cycle graph by Robert Simmon, NASA Earth Observatory, based on NSIDC data. Caption by Maria-José Viñas, NASA Earth Science News Team, and Mike Carlowicz, NASA Earth Observatory.

Published September 21, 2013
Data acquired September 13, 2013

Source:
GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2