Arctic Sea Ice Continues a Trend of Shrinking Maximum Extents
Dr. Claire Parkinson explains how and why NASA studies Arctic sea ice.
Music: Children's Carousel by Maxi Schulze [GEMA], Moritz Limmer [GEMA]
Complete transcript available.
Arctic sea ice reached its annual maximum extent on March 17, according to analysis by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The 2018 extent reached 5.59 million square miles, only about 23,000 square miles larger than the lowest maximum on record, in 2017.
This continues a trend of shrinking sea ice, with the four lowest Arctic sea ice maximum extents on record in the last four years.
2018 Sea Ice Extent Visualization
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Kathryn Mersmann (USRA)
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Writer
- Maria-Jose Vinas Garcia (Telophase)
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Scientist
- Claire Parkinson (NASA/GSFC)
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, March 23, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT.
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