TREND IN ARCTIC SEA ICE

01/01/2007

A NOAA Report
November 2006


The extent of Arctic Sea ice has experienced a steady declining trend during the past 33 years, based on a new comprehensive analysis of satellite data by experts at the U.S. National Ice Center, a tri-agency team from NOAA, the U.S. Navy, and U.S. Coast Guard, based in Suitland, Md.


This new climatology dataset is expected to be a more useful and accurate tool for the research community to use than other datasets previously available. This tool can be applied to improve seasonal and climatological sea-ice-change forecast research in the Arctic.


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