Arctic sea ice thickness information has been updated with NRT data for December 2017 and reprocessed data for November 2017. Daily, weekly and monthly products are available here: Reprocessed, Near-real time
Missing Input Data
CryoSat-2 NRT Level-1b input data was not available for December 16-17 on the ESA server. No sea ice data is available for these dates, which may affect estimates of sea ice volume and volume gain below.
Short Facts
- December sea ice volume in the central Arctic was 5th lowest in 8 years of CryoSat-2 observations: 9.12 km3
- highest: 10.39 km3 in Dec 2013
- lowest: 7.90 km3 in Dec 2011
- average: 9.03 km3
- Monthly sea ice volume gain (November through December) was 3rd lowest in 8 years of CryoSat-2 observations: +0.92 km3
- highest: +1.57 km3 in Dec 2016
- lowest: +0.75 km3 in Dec 2015
- average: +1.07 km3
- Cummulative sea ice volume gain (October through December) was lowest in 8 years of CryoSat-2 observations: +2.98 km3
- highest: +3.91 km3 in Dec 2016
- average: +3.41 km3