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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...

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...

Now that the PIOMAS main series of total volume is out I can look at what that shows about the May volume loss. This being the first part of...

The data is now in, so here's a look at May and prospects for the coming summer.

Thanks, as always, to Dr Zhang and the PIOMAS team at the Polar Science Center for making gridded PIOMAS products available to amateurs su...

Beaufort has already started to collapse, I will have more about that in a post to follow when I have the time tomorrow. For now, I have ame...

PIOMAS data is now out. So here is a summary of the data based on the gridded data provided by the PIOMAS team. Once again thanks is due to...

As promised in the comments of my previous post, I am going to break down the difference between January 2015 and January 2016 in terms of r...

The interesting forecast addressed in my last post involving two cyclones, one being the remnants of tropical storm Molave, hasn't pann...

PIOMAS gridded data is out, well partially.As I type the gice data and daily data hasn't been updated, but I'll proceed with what he...

June data is now fully available, so here is my commentary on the current sea ice state and the month just passed. Sorry but this is a long ...

This will be a rather short post, I will have much more to say about the June PIOMAS data. But for now, partly due to work, here's some ...

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 ...

For the Arctic Ocean to become seasonally sea ice free the Central Arctic region must become sea ice free. What is happening in PIOMAS in th...

Part 2 of my summary of April sea ice state focusses on ice thickness as seen in PIOMAS. So for those who have been awaiting the more de...

This post is the first of two blog posts examining ice state as of April 2015. April extent is very low but this has little impact on the co...

 In this post I'm going to explain a PIOMAS metric that I will be using from now on. I will also give a first look at this metric. The g...