2013 wintertime Arctic sea ice maximum fifth lowest on record (w/ Video)
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 14:30
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org) —Last September, at the end of the northern hemisphere summer, the Arctic Ocean's icy cover shrank to its lowest extent on record, continuing a long-term trend and diminishing to about half the size of the average summertime extent from 1979 to 2000.