Hi Guys!
Yup very worrying that such 'average' (even below average?) losses so far this year has us tied for second lowest ice extent?
With the IceBridge survey showing a further 20cm loss of thickness on it's flight across Beaufort earlier last month you must have concerns for the amount of 'dark water' we will have in the basin by the end of June?
As for the 100k losses I'd say the next few weeks will bring plenty with the promise of synoptic melting for the foreseeable future (out to 5 days I reckon?) and very large areas of fragmented and small floes across the whole basin.
Even an average summer will bring us to record ice loss rates by Late June /Early July (I reckon) and then synoptics will dictate how far below 07' the final extent reaches.
As for the 'older ice' the processes that used to conserve/build ice thickness now seem to lead to melt so we appear to have entered a lose,lose phase of Arctic sea ice.
On a more positive note Nares ice bridge is still holding!
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