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The Arctic summer minimum drops far below anything previously observed

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September sea-ice extent falls to roughly 4.2 million square kilometres, far below the previous record and far below what the models of the day projected for that decade. The 2007 minimum is the point at which Arctic sea-ice decline stopped being a trend line and became an event, and it prompted a substantial re-examination of how the models handled ice.

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  2. September sea-ice extent falls to roughly 4.2 million square kilometres, far below the previous record and far below what the models of the day projected for that decade. The 2007 minimum is the point at which Arctic sea-ice decline stopped being a trend line and became an event, and it prompted a substantial re-examination of how the models handled ice.
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  4. Arctic Ocean
  5. Sea Ice
  6. The Arctic summer minimum drops far below anything previously observed
  7. The lowest Arctic sea-ice extent in the satellite record
  8. Connections
  9. The lowest Arctic sea-ice extent in the satellite record
  10. Sea Ice
  11. Arctic Ocean
  12. The Arctic summer minimum drops far below anything previously observed
  13. Arctic Ocean
  14. Sea Ice
  15. Arctic Amplification
  16. Polynya
  17. Arctic Amplification
  18. Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba)
  19. Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
  20. Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)
  21. Halley Bay Emperor Penguin Colony
  22. The continuous satellite sea-ice record begins
  23. A long-term decline in krill density is linked to winter sea ice
  24. The Arctic summer minimum drops far below anything previously observed
  25. The lowest Arctic sea-ice extent in the satellite record
  26. The Halley Bay emperor colony fails and does not recover
  27. The emperor penguin is listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act
  28. Antarctic sea ice reaches a record low, a year after the previous one
  29. Antarctica
  30. Arctic Amplification
  31. Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
  32. Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
  33. Arctic Council
  34. Inuit
  35. The continuous satellite sea-ice record begins
  36. The Arctic summer minimum drops far below anything previously observed
  37. The lowest Arctic sea-ice extent in the satellite record
  38. Seven Arctic states pause participation in the Arctic Council
  39. Evidence
  40. A continuous, consistently processed record of sea-ice extent in both hemispheres exists from 1979, from which the Arctic September minima of 2007 (approximately 4.2 million km2) and 2012 (approximately 3.4 million km2) and the Antarctic February minima of 2022 and 2023 (the first below 2 million km2 in the record, and lower again the following year) are drawn. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: nsidc.org was probed during production and refused by the network egress proxy, and the WebSearch budget was exhausted. EVERY NUMERIC VALUE IN THIS RECORD IS APPROXIMATE AND UNCHECKED, given to one or two significant figures for that reason. A curator must replace them with values read from the Sea Ice Index before publication.
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