Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2014 Minimum Extent

Released Monday, September 22, 2014

ID: 11654

- Visualizations by:
- Trent L. Schindler
- and Cindy Starr
- Produced by:
- Joy Ng
- Written by:
- Kate Ramsayer

Sea ice acts as an air conditioner for the planet, reflecting energy from the Sun. On September 17, the Arctic Sea ice reached its minimum extent for 2014 — at 1.94 million square miles (5.02 million square kilometers), it’s the sixth lowest extent of the satellite record. With warmer temperatures and thinner, less resilient ice, the Arctic sea ice is on a downward trend.

Here is the YouTube video.

For complete transcript, click here.

For More Information

See http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/2014-arctic-sea-ice-minimum-sixth-lowest-on-record/#.VnQjVxorIUE

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Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Data visualizers
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA)
Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Scientists
- Josefino Comiso (NASA/GSFC)
- Robert Gersten (Wyle Information Systems)
- Walt Meier (NASA/GSFC)
- Nathan T. Kurtz (NASA/GSFC)
Producers
- Joy Ng (USRA)
- Jefferson Beck (USRA)
Narrator
- Joy Ng (USRA)
Writer
- Kate Ramsayer (Telophase)
Project support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)