Yearly Antarctic Sea Ice Minima from 1979 through 2008

  • Released Saturday, September 20, 2008
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This visualization shows Antarctic sea ice minima from 1979 through 2008. Near the end of each southern hemisphere summer (usually in February), the Antarctic sea ice cover reaches its minimum extent and what is left is called the perennial ice cover which consists mainly of thick multi-year ice floes.

Yearly Antarctic Sea Ice Minima from 1979 through 2008 without climatology (average from 1979 to 2008)

Yearly Antarctic Sea Ice Minima from 1979 through 2008 with red climatology (average from 1979 to 2008)

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

This page was originally published on Saturday, September 20, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.

Datasets used

  • [DMSP: SSM/I]

    ID: 11
    Sensor: SSM/I Dates used: SSMI sea ice data: 1979/02/17, 1980/03/01, 1981/02/18, 1982/02/21, 1983/02/24, 1984/02/19, 1985/02/19, 1986/02/28, 1987/02/21, 1988/02/24, 1989/02/16, 1990/02/21, 1991/02/28, 1992/02/21, 1993/02/14, 1994/02/11, 1995/02/14, 1996/02/20, 1997/02/19, 1998/02/17, 1999/02/21, 2000/02/16, 2001/02/19, 2002/02/16, 2003/02/16, 2004/02/20, 2005/02/14, 2006/02/19, 2007/02/19, 2008/02/16

    Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Microwave Imager

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  • Comiso's Daily Sea Ice Concentration

    ID: 539
    Type: Data Compilation Collected by: NASA/GSFC
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