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Daily Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 2008 (using SSMI data)
Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. The sea ice cover reaches its minimum extent at the end of each summer and the remaining ice is called the perennial ice cover.

This visualization shows Artic sea ice from July 1, 2008 through Septemeber 14, 2008 based on the DMSP/SSMI instrument.

The minimum Arctic sea ice extent occurred the week of September 12, 2008, when the extent was 4.52 million sq km (1.74 million sq miles).


Animation of daily Arctic sea ice 2008    Animation of daily Arctic sea ice 2008
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Arctic sea ice on 12 September 2008    Arctic sea ice on 12 September 2008

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Arctic sea ice on 13 September 2008    Arctic sea ice on 13 September 2008

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Arctic sea ice on 14 September 2008    Arctic sea ice on 14 September 2008

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Animation Number:3547
Completed:2008-09-03
Animator:Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) (Lead)
Scientist:Josefino Comiso (NASA/GSFC)
Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets:DMSP/SSM/I
 Comiso's Daily Sea Ice Concentration
Data Collected:07/01/2008 through 09/08/2008
Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Sea Ice
GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Cryosphere >> Sea Ice
GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Cryosphere >> Sea Ice >> Sea Ice Concentration
SVS >> iPod
 
 
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.


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