Metting Arctic ice - update - 08/14/2015

A picture is worth a thousand words

 

Note the presence of water on this image, from Web Cam 1, from the North Pole Environmental Observatory, National Science Foundation. 

http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/NPEO2015/NPEO2015_webcams.html

For a drift map of the buoys, also see this page. http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/DriftTrackMap.html

On August 12, 2015, Arctic sea ice extent was 6.043 million square km. For this date, the only years on record that sea ice extent was smaller were 2007, 2011 and 2012.

That’s sea ice EXTENT, not taking into consideration thickness or mass