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Here's the January 31st 2025 comparison between PIOMAS and CryoSat-2/SMOS #Arctic sea ice thickness and volume data: greatwhitecon.info/2025/02/fact... On January 31st PIOMAS Arctic sea ice volume had reached 17.11 thousand km³, still 2nd lowest for the date in the PIOMAS record.

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Here's the January 31st 2025 comparison between PIOMAS and CryoSat-2/SMOS #Arctic sea ice thickness and volume data: greatwhitecon.info/2025/02/fact... On January 31st PIOMAS Arctic sea ice volume had reached 17.11 thousand km³, still 2nd lowest for the date in the PIOMAS record.

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Has anybody ever previously surfed the north shore of Spitsbergen in the dark? greatwhitecon.info/2025/02/fact... Do @redbull.com have access to choppers with searchlights? Here's the nowcast 👇 #GWCABBWSC #Arctic big wave #surfing Cc: @seaice.de

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Hear, hear Lars!

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The waiting period for the 2025 Great White Con #Arctic Basin Big Wave #Surfing Contest has begun. On Saturday afternoon the temperature at the North Pole was above the freezing point of water, and there were 7 meter waves in the Fram Strait. My West Devon alter ego was starting to get paddle fit!

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I bring you some shocking news from the top of the world: greatwhitecon.info/2025/02/fact... According to the 06Z GFS model run, surface temperatures at the North Pole will rise above the freezing point of fresh water later today. #Arctic #SeaIce extent has already fallen significantly. 🧵👇

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GFS has been forecasting warm and windy weather in the Central #Arctic this weekend. Including temperatures around zero Celsius at the North Pole on Sunday: greatwhitecon.info/2025/01/fact... It remains to be seen whether this forecast verifies!

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At a remarkably late date, Hudson Bay is now (almost!) covered in #SeaIce: greatwhitecon.info/2025/01/fact... Amongst the other peripheral seas, extent in the Sea of Okhotsk is also currently lowest for the date in the #AMSR2 record. Baffin Bay and #JAXA pan #Arctic extent are both 2nd lowest.

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On this day five years ago we boarded the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn for the MOSAiC Arctic expedition (leg 3) not knowing what was to come.

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Just a BlueSky Friday-Fun-Fact. This is exactly how dark the blue sky is at mid-day, mid-winter in the polar night (three degres north of the Polar Circle) 💙

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🧵 Our annual NOAA Arctic Report Card is available today for 2024. It discusses recent changes in the #Arctic, extreme events, and broader human/environmental impacts. ⚒️🧪🌊❄️ + Report: arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/... + Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yqG... + Summary: arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...

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All of a sudden #Arctic #SeaIce extent is lowest for the date in the 46 year #JAXA record: greatwhitecon.info/2024/12/fact...

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📣Thrilled to share that the first paper of my PhD has been published! We use CryoSat-2 to map sea ice leads and floes in the notoriously-challenging Northwest Passage🛰️ 🧵 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/107...

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In honour of #Antarctica day (and my first ever post on here) I'm sharing one of my favourite #photos of this truly amazing place taken during the summer #sea #ice minima last year. In this image, three resting seals are dwarfed by a capsized iceberg in the Bellingshausen Sea. #photography

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🥳🎉 for the 👌 Sentinel1-C 🛰️ launch. This animation highlights again the key insights #sentinel1 provides for ❄️+🧊+🌎 ; here nicely illustrating the decay of Pine Island Glaciers' shear zones.

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Thanks for the shout out @lewan.bsky.social, which Snow and I have only just discovered thanks to the tagging discrepancy Now I cannot help but wonder if Mr. Rose is being recursively furious here on Bluesky? I will now go and see how many of the usual suspects I can spot! Cc: @greatwhitecon.info

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"Journey to the soul of the Earth" by @kasiaturajczyk.bsky.social #ContemporaryArt #Surrealism

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#RecursiveFury @jim_hunt Nice summary with reference to video http://greatwhitecon.info/2014/03/recursive-fury-from-david-rose/ taken longer than i thought but Soviet Union here now

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🌊That’s a very rare and important paper about finding and fixing a (sea ice related) bug in a climate model. We need more papers like this so the community can learn from mistakes. 🌊🧪

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A timeline of monthly temperature change in the #Arctic from 1950 through all of 2023... [Click to open] Download high-resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe... (ECMWF ERA5 data)

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The #Arctic #SeaIce refreeze has slowed down over the last few days, and the #JAXA / ViSHOP extent metric is now second lowest for the date in their record that goes back to 1978: greatwhitecon.info/2024/11/fact...

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The mid month #PIOMAS gridded thickness data has just been released: greatwhitecon.info/2024/11/fact... On November 15th #Arctic #SeaIce volume was 8.23 thousand km³, 4th lowest for the date in the PIOMAS record:

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Those of you interested in new climate change related research, be sure to check @skepticalscience.bsky.social weekly compilations of new research papers. skepticalscience.com/new_research... #climatechange #climate #science

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Our latest #ClimateChangeResearch roundup includes 121 articles published in 49 journals and authored by some 726 cooperating researchers. If this is a helpful comipilation for you, be on the lookout for the latest edition each week on Thursday! skepticalscience.com/new_research...

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Here's our mid month update on #CryoSat2/#SMOS merged #Arctic #SeaIce thickness and volume: greatwhitecon.info/2024/11/fact...

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#Arctic #SeaIce has started forming at Nome on the west coast of #Alaska: greatwhitecon.info/2024/11/fact...

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2024 now in 4k resolution! In just 45 years, only a quarter of #Arctic sea ice remains in September. It is sobering that what usually happens on geologic timescales, we have caused in half a lifetime. #ClimateCrisis #Dataviz #ArcticDeathSpiral www.youtube.com/watch?v=NphV...

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