Employees of the National Center for the Study of snow and ice in Boulder (Colorado) reported that, according to satellite observations maximum ice cover in the Arctic today is not more than 14,540,000 square kilometers.
This minimum ice area, experts say NASA, was recorded for the first time since the start of satellite observations of the Arctic. Previously, the record for the smallest area of Arctic sea ice belonged to 2011, when only 14.56 million square kilometers of Arctic ice cover harbored.
At the same time the staff of the National Center for the Study of snow and ice in Boulder, is used to monitor the Arctic only details of his companions, remind that the area of Arctic sea ice tends to expand and contract in the winter during the summer. Their maximum ice cover of the Arctic usually starts to move at the end of February and peaked in April. Then begins the process of reduction of sea ice in the Arctic, which ends in September.
But this year, its maximum value of the area of Arctic sea ice reached 15 days earlier than normal – the 25th of February.
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