Race to Fram Strait 4

Artful Dodger keeps sending me cropped IJIS sea ice concentration images, they keep looking interesting, so I keep making updates of the animation of the ice transport towards Fram Strait:

 

The animation covers the period August 10 - September 2, 2010. Notice how large swathes of low-concentration ice disappear into that black thing in the middle, from now on known as the North Hole. It's the place where submarines used to meet and make pictures of each other.

Also check out JackTaylor's detailed animation of Uni Bremen sea ice concentration maps from August 26th to September 3rd.

Here's today's MODIS satellite image of the area in question between Svalbard and Franz Josef Land. It looks amazing:

Comments

[Peter Ellis]

Here's today's MODIS satellite image of the area in question between Svalbard and Franz Josef Land. It looks amazing:

Steven Goddard thinks it looks just peachy. As he says, "The PIPS maps show thick ice to the northeast of Svalbard, which appears to be correct from satellite images."

[Peter Ellis]

Bah, forgot the link.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/arctic-ice-comparison-vs-2006/

[dorlomin]

*bites tongue*

[Neven]

Well, at least he's doing it on his own blog now, and not on the no 1 misleading and disinforming skeptic website.

[Peter Ellis]

More hilarity - I asked him why he excluded the NSIDC predictions from his bullseye chart, and he replied that it was because the predictions were too good. I'm not sure he realised that's what he'd said, though.

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/arctic-forecast-verification/