Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum by Staff Writers

 Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum by Staff Writers Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 08, 2014

On Sept. 19, 2014, the five-day average of Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The red line shows the average maximum extent from 1979-2014. Image courtesy NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Cindy Starr. For a larger version of this image please go here. Watch a video on the research here.

Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.

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