Sea Ice is a myth. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > You, uh, see ... it's, uh, well, it's like this: we made a little boo-boo. > > More of a technical glitch really and uh ... > > --- > As some of our readers have already noticed, there was a significant > problem with the daily sea ice data images on February 16. The problem > arose from a malfunction of the satellite sensor we use for our daily > sea ice products. Upon further investigation, we discovered that > starting around early January, an error known as sensor drift caused a > slowly growing underestimation of Arctic sea ice extent. The > underestimation reached approximately 500,000 square kilometers > (193,000 square miles) by mid-February. Sensor drift, although > infrequent, does occasionally occur and it is one of the things that > we account for during quality control measures prior to archiving the > data. See below for more details. > > http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ > --- > > Cause ... so, ok ... it turns out this prediction last May was WAY off: > http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2008/050508.html > >
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