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  1. In August 2026, the #SeaIce global extent was 7.2% below 1991-2020 mean. Since the beginning of records (1978):
    - #Arctic, 12th lowest monthly mean, with 9.1% less extent than normal (-617,526km²)
    - #Antarctic, 4th lowest monthly mean, with 6.5% less exent than normal (1,178,424km²)

    for more: osi-saf.eumetsat.int/sea-ice-i

  2. In August 2026, the #SeaIce global extent was 7.2% below 1991-2020 mean. Since the beginning of records (1978):
    - #Arctic, 12th lowest monthly mean, with 9.1% less extent than normal (-617,526km²)
    - #Antarctic, 4th lowest monthly mean, with 6.5% less exent than normal (1,178,424km²)

    for more: osi-saf.eumetsat.int/sea-ice-i

  3. In August 2026, the #SeaIce global extent was 7.2% below 1991-2020 mean. Since the beginning of records (1978):
    - #Arctic, 12th lowest monthly mean, with 9.1% less extent than normal (-617,526km²)
    - #Antarctic, 4th lowest monthly mean, with 6.5% less exent than normal (1,178,424km²)

    for more: osi-saf.eumetsat.int/sea-ice-i

  4. In August 2026, the #SeaIce global extent was 7.2% below 1991-2020 mean. Since the beginning of records (1978):
    - #Arctic, 12th lowest monthly mean, with 9.1% less extent than normal (-617,526km²)
    - #Antarctic, 4th lowest monthly mean, with 6.5% less exent than normal (1,178,424km²)

    for more: osi-saf.eumetsat.int/sea-ice-i

  5. In August 2026, the #SeaIce global extent was 7.2% below 1991-2020 mean. Since the beginning of records (1978):
    - #Arctic, 12th lowest monthly mean, with 9.1% less extent than normal (-617,526km²)
    - #Antarctic, 4th lowest monthly mean, with 6.5% less exent than normal (1,178,424km²)

    for more: osi-saf.eumetsat.int/sea-ice-i

  6. Sea ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas continues melt, with the total extent slightly higher than 2025 but well below the 1991-2020 median in NSIDC data. The higher concentration sea ice near the northeast Alaska coast is thicker multi-year ice from the Canadian High Arctic. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

  7. Sea ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas continues melt, with the total extent slightly higher than 2025 but well below the 1991-2020 median in NSIDC data. The higher concentration sea ice near the northeast Alaska coast is thicker multi-year ice from the Canadian High Arctic. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

  8. Sea ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas continues melt, with the combined extent slightly higher than last year but well below the 1991-2020 median in NSIDC data. The higher concentration sea ice north of the northeast Alaska coast is an area of thicker multi-year ice that moved southwest in the spring from the Canadian High Arctic in the ocean currents. @Climatologist49 @ZLabe

    #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

  9. Sea ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas continues melt, with the combined extent slightly higher than last year but well below the 1991-2020 median in NSIDC data. The higher concentration sea ice north of the northeast Alaska coast is an area of thicker multi-year ice that moved southwest in the spring from the Canadian High Arctic in the ocean currents. @Climatologist49 @ZLabe

    #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

  10. Sea ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas continues melt, with the combined extent slightly higher than last year but well below the 1991-2020 median in NSIDC data. The higher concentration sea ice north of the northeast Alaska coast is an area of thicker multi-year ice that moved southwest in the spring from the Canadian High Arctic in the ocean currents. @Climatologist49 @ZLabe

    #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

  11. Sea ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas continues melt, with the combined extent slightly higher than last year but well below the 1991-2020 median in NSIDC data. The higher concentration sea ice north of the northeast Alaska coast is an area of thicker multi-year ice that moved southwest in the spring from the Canadian High Arctic in the ocean currents. @Climatologist49 @ZLabe

    #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

  12. Sea ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas continues melt, with the combined extent slightly higher than last year but well below the 1991-2020 median in NSIDC data. The higher concentration sea ice north of the northeast Alaska coast is an area of thicker multi-year ice that moved southwest in the spring from the Canadian High Arctic in the ocean currents. @Climatologist49 @ZLabe

    #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

  13. "all this ICE got me changing my climate"

    Small seaice bot progress update, mostly done with downloading and ingesting the entire US as vector shapefiles, converting to GeoJSON and a touch more work to index into the db.

    Pumping BigXThe Plug while we crawl up ICE's ass....

    @seaice_usa @seaice

    #BigXThaPlug #TracksToHackTo #Climate #ICEWatch #devlog #seaice

  14. "all this ICE got me changing my climate"

    Small seaice bot progress update, mostly done with downloading and ingesting the entire US as vector shapefiles, converting to GeoJSON and a touch more work to index into the db.

    Pumping BigXThe Plug while we crawl up ICE's ass....

    @seaice_usa @seaice

    #BigXThaPlug #TracksToHackTo #Climate #ICEWatch #devlog #seaice

  15. "all this ICE got me changing my climate"

    Small seaice bot progress update, mostly done with downloading and ingesting the entire US as vector shapefiles, converting to GeoJSON and a touch more work to index into the db.

    Pumping BigXThe Plug while we crawl up ICE's ass....

    @seaice_usa @seaice

    #BigXThaPlug #TracksToHackTo #Climate #ICEWatch #devlog #seaice

  16. "all this ICE got me changing my climate"

    Small seaice bot progress update, mostly done with downloading and ingesting the entire US as vector shapefiles, converting to GeoJSON and a touch more work to index into the db.

    Pumping BigXThe Plug while we crawl up ICE's ass....

    @seaice_usa @seaice

    #BigXThaPlug #TracksToHackTo #Climate #ICEWatch #devlog #seaice

  17. Mapping Snow On Northern Winter Roads - A Dual-Frequency Polarimetric Radar Approach For Snow Characterization Over Land, Lake And Sea Ice
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    doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-4367-2026 <-- shared paper
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    H/T @Monojit Saha | Geospatial Analysis | Remote Sensing | Satellite Altimetry | Cryosphere
    “Winter roads are essential transportation links for many remote northern communities, but their safety and reliability depend strongly on snow conditions and ice growth. In this study [link above], [the authors] evaluated a fully polarimetric, dual-frequency Ku- and Ka-band radar approach for retrieving snow depth across landfast sea ice, lake ice, and tundra.
    Using field measurements near Churchill, Manitoba, and Resolute Bay, Nunavut [Canada], [they] found that the approach produced snow-depth retrieval bias and error within 3 cm over landfast ice, with encouraging Ku-band performance over frozen ground as well. [They] also developed an interface-detection approach for lake ice that can retrieve both snow depth and ice thickness - a promising direction for characterizing conditions relevant to winter-road planning and safety…”
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    “Winter roads are lifelines for remote northern communities. Built over land, lakes, rivers, and sea ice, these travel routes are increasingly vulnerable to warming temperatures and variable precipitation. To ensure safety and adapt to these changes, operators require high-resolution monitoring of snow depth across these diverse surfaces, as natural snow accumulation dictates ice growth rates, route viability and road stability. This study extends our polarimetric radar method, previously demonstrated on pack ice, to landfast sea ice, tundra, and frozen lakes and assesses how well we can retrieve snow depth over these surfaces. Results indicate consistency with earlier sea ice analyses, maintaining a mean snow depth retrieval bias and error within 3 cm over the landfast ice. Promising performance is also found over frozen ground using Ku-band (mean biases less than 6 cm). To address the specific challenge of lake ice, which includes strong returns from the ice/water interface, we present a new interface-detection technique that simultaneously retrieves snow depth and ice thickness. While current validation focuses on undisturbed snow, this approach could provide a path forward for characterizing the cryospheric environment in a way that can directly support the optimization of winter roads…”
    #Cryosphere #RemoteSensing #Snow #SeaIce #LakeIce #WinterRoads #characterisation #ArcticResearch #EarthObservation #PolarScience #maintainence #ploughing #winter #roads #transportation #northern #communities #mines #FirstNation #canada #remotesensing #polarimetric #radar #snowdepth #ice #landfastice #iceroad #tundra #Churchill #Manitoba #ResoluteBay #Nunavut #monitoring #planning #safety #trucking #freight

  18. Pressure ridge (ice) (Glaciology 🗻)

    A pressure ridge is a linear pile-up of sea ice fragments formed in pack ice by accumulation in the convergence between floes in an oceanic or coastal environment. Such a pressure ridge develops in an ice cover as a result of a stress regime established within the plane of the ice. Within sea ice expanses, pressure ridges originate from the int...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure

    #PressureRidge #SeaIce #Landforms #Glaciology #Geomorphology

  19. Pressure ridge (ice) (Glaciology 🗻)

    A pressure ridge is a linear pile-up of sea ice fragments formed in pack ice by accumulation in the convergence between floes in an oceanic or coastal environment. Such a pressure ridge develops in an ice cover as a result of a stress regime established within the plane of the ice. Within sea ice expanses, pressure ridges originate from the int...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure

    #PressureRidge #SeaIce #Landforms #Glaciology #Geomorphology

  20. A very telling story about Arctic sea ice decline and the climate crisis we are in.

    By @SigneAaboe, made with @osi_saf data

    #climatecrisis #seaice #showyourstripes

  21. Retreating Arctic sea ice exposes a hidden seafloor trap that could starve plankton of the nutrient they need

    A little-known process on the Arctic seafloor is coming into focus as sea ice retreats, and scientists say…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Arcticwaters #essentialnutrient #foodweb #nitrogengas #plankton #Science #seaice #seafloor #UniversityofEdinburgh
    newsbeep.com/us/696505/

  22. Retreating Arctic sea ice exposes a hidden seafloor trap that could starve plankton of the nutrient they need

    A little-known process on the Arctic seafloor is coming into focus as sea ice retreats, and scientists say…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Arcticwaters #essentialnutrient #foodweb #nitrogengas #plankton #Science #seaice #seafloor #UniversityofEdinburgh
    newsbeep.com/us/696505/

  23. RE: fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/

    For the morning team: We're looking for scientists excited to work at the cutting edge of Polar science with the latest high resolution climate models and Earth Observation data.
    Funding support available for travel, accomodation + food costs covered

    #Arctic #Antarctic #Polar #ClimateScience #ClimateModelling #EarthObservation #Climate #IceSheets #SeaIce #Permafrost

  24. Record low 2022 #Antarctic #seaice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor #penguins
    #EmperorPenguin colonies experienced unprecedented breeding failure in a region of Antarctica where there was total sea #ice loss in 2022. The discovery supports predictions that over 90% of emperor penguin colonies will be quasi-#extinct by the end of the century, based on current #globalwarming trends.
    bas.ac.uk/media-post/loss-of-s
    I think #climatechange is a #climatecrisis at this point

  25. Almost the last trip of the year: To Liege to talk #PROTECT +#POLARRES with the #MAR group and to examine a PhD thesis. Looking forward to some good discussions with Xavier Fettweis and the rest of the group on coupled #ClimateModel development with #ocean #SeaIce + #IceSheet, next gen #RegionalClimateModels and how to choose #CMIP6 #ESMs for #downscaling.

  26. Greenland polar bear population has been isolated for hundreds of years - Enlarge (credit: Paul Souders)

    In the southeast corner of Gree... - arstechnica.com/?p=1861675 #isolatedpopulations #climatechange #polarbears #science #arctic #seaice