See my Arctic Update Page for daily updates on Arctic Sea Ice Extent
Arctic Sea Ice Extent (SIE) follows an annual cycle, with maximum levels usually in March and minimum values in September. Many analysts use day-of-year charts to compare the SIE cycle by years so that they can assess the current years trend with previous years. In this post, I present an alternative to the day-of-year chart which shows the daily values a calendar month previous years and the current year.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent (SIE)
I have discussed Arctic Sea Ice Extent (SIE) here and here. Both of those posts used the NSDIC monthly Arctic SIE data. In this post, I use the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) daily data series, available at this link.
Here’s the JAXA day-of-year chart . Click image to enlarge.
