Two weeks ago the Integrated Climate Data Center from the KlimaCampus of the University of Hamburg - which enables easy access to climate relevant observational data from in-situ measurements and satellite remote sensing - announced that they had derived 8-day composites of Arctic Ocean melt pond cover fraction on sea ice for May-September 2000-2011 based on MODIS data.
To quote the ICDC: "The melt pond cover fraction on Arctic Sea Ice is of particular importance for the process of every years' summer melt of the Arctic sea ice cover."
I've looked at the images from the database of the CliSAP/KlimaCampus Product (unfortunately not as nice-looking as the image above I copied from the ICDC melt pond page) and compared the melting seasons since 2007 at three different dates, based on the CAPIE graph:
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