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I've been very busy at work, it's audit season, so no spare time. But this weekend is down-time to rest. So I've just had a look...

In May 2015 I concluded a series of posts with The Slow Transition . It was a risky prognostication but an additional 7 years of data has su...

Open Water Formation Efficiency (OWFE) is a measure of the ease with which melt season thinning of sea-ice reveals open water. In March I pu...

 

The BCE region is comprised of the Beaufort, Chukchi, East Siberian Seas. Due to the Beaufort Gyre it has a special role in the dynamics of ...

Previously, 9 years ago, I produced two posts on Open Water Formation Efficiency, here and here . Now, as a bed rock to a series of posts I...

Just a quick first review of PIOMAS data from 1978 to 2021. The results of this preliminary data-dive are what I had expected, which is not ...

Not all of the NCEP/NCAR data is available, and PIOMAS is yet to be released, but with the data available there is still a lot to cover abou...

Ten months ago I posted about my change of mind, from thinking that a fast crash was a very real possibility to expecting a slow transition ...

The decline in sea ice volume can reasonably be viewed as a process of net energy gain in the Arctic Ocean's ice/ocean system. How can i...

The peripheral seas of the Arctic Ocean are now virtually ice free in September, they are seasonal sea ice seas. Need I say more? ...

In my July Status blog post I rounded up by mentioning a possible oscillation in August NSIDC Extent losses. Using the Wipneus extent calcul...

I've previously blogged about the anomaly cliff in CT Area during June and its relationship with melt ponding. This anomaly drop is a...

I've been busy with the day job, which has given me time to ponder something I've hinted at before but am now firmly behind. This ye...

In my previous post I discussed the results of model forecasts for Arctic sea ice, and have outlined why I am not convinced by GCM results ...

Recently I blogged about a paper showing the cause of the post 1995 volume decline in PIOMAS, this being the period of greatest and most pe...

PIOMAS volume data is now out for March. The PIOMAS model uses NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data to drive the ice and ocean components of the model,...

Last year weather led to a pulse of increased volume being fed into the sea ice system, since then we have seen this pulse being severely re...

Behind all of my blogging on sea ice is the volume loss, which is driving the changes. The volume loss is shown by other data (e.g. Submarin...

What is the link between the thinning of Arctic Sea ice and the increased open water seen in recent years?