Record dominoes 9: PIOMAS sea ice volume

[muriel_volestrangler]

The people from PIOMAS have done an extra data release (there'll be another one next week for all of the August data). This data shows us that yet another record domino has fallen, after so many others already. This is one of the biggest dominoes out there, especially now that observational data from CryoSat-2 is largely confirming PIOMAS modeled data. It's all about the volume.

http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2012/08/record-dominoes-9-piomas-sea-ice-volume.html

More graphs, such as thickness, at the Neven Sea Ice Blog in the link. There was a sudden decrease in average thickness in summer months starting in 2010. Notice that this is a graph that goes all the way down to zero; it is possible that this year's minimum will have half the volume of the 2007 minimum.

[geckosfeet]

1. ..and it looks like 2012 will set a new low end benchmark

[GliderGuider]

2. The Arctic Basin Sea Ice Area graph clearly shows the tipping point in '06-'07

The tipping point shows most clearly in the anomaly graph in red:

[XemaSab]

3. Something Xema rarely says: We're right on schedule.

[joshcryer]

4. 3 fucking years.

THREE FUCKING YEARS.

[pscot]

5. How can anyone look at that

and not get it?