Visualization Vednesdays: Where has all the sea ice gone?

[phantom power]

There are oodles of movies about the loss of sea ice in the Arctic. But I heart this one because it shows the pathway by which sea ice is leaving the Arctic. As the movie progresses from 1980 to 1995 (I totally admit the data is a little old), we can see really old and thick ice (white regions) leaving the Arctic on the bottom right hand corner of the screen just east of Greenland via a constriction called Fram Strait. The blue regions show younger and thinner ice. The dancing red worms are drifter tracks, which are really just large buoys imbedded in the ice and whose positions are tracked via satellites. And just like the ice, they too are getting the hell out of dodge via the same pathway.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Wow. Just Wow. Nobody sees the bright side to all of this???

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[NoOneMan]

2. Looks like a beating heart throughout the cycles

But slowly getting smaller.