Arctic Sea Ice Concentrations for September (Minimum)
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
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About the Content
- A time-series view of September Arctic sea ice concentration from 1979 to 2023.
- Visualization animates changes in Arctic sea ice at its minimal extent (September) from 1979-2023. Part of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) State of the Cryosphere web resources.
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Scientific strengths: - Provides a visual representation of sea ice melt in the Arctic that allow a student to visualize and understand actual data.
- Provides several associated representations and models of sea ice that allow a student to compare and contrast actual data both of min and max sea ice and in the Artic and Antarctic.
About the Pedagogy
- Attractive graphic is easy to interpret even though no quantitative data is given.
- Dramatic image centered on the North Pole using satellite data overlaid onto NASA's Blue Marble. Additional Arctic animation (March/maximum extent) and Antarctic extents (September/maximum and March/minimum), as well as other excellent resources on the cryosphere, are in the sidebar. For more information, see the NSIDC web page on sea ice- https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today.
