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Predicted Arctic sea ice trends over time

31 May 2025 by Gavin

Over multiple generations of CMIP models Arctic sea ice trend predictions have gone from much too stable to about right. Why?

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Filed Under: Arctic and Antarctic, Climate modelling, Climate Science, Featured Story, Model-Obs Comparisons Tagged With: Arctic amplification, CMIP3, CMIP5, CMIP6

The most recent climate status

12 May 2025 by rasmus

Fjords and mountains in Northern Norway
Fjords and mountains in Northern Norway

The Arctic Council’s Arctic Monitoring and assessment Programme (AMAP) recently released a Summary for PolicyMakers’ Arctic Climate Change Update 2024. 

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Filed Under: Arctic and Antarctic, Climate impacts, Climate Science, Featured Story, Reporting on climate

Unforced variations: May 2025

1 May 2025 by group

This month’s open thread. Note that the Nenana Ice challenge break up date graph has been updated, and the Yukon river ice break up is imminent (or may have already happened! [Update – it already had]). Please stay focused on climate issues.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread, Solutions

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