A persistent northward transport of anomalously-warm air across the Bering Sea during the month of February 2019 led to an unusual loss of sea ice there — daily images of GCOM-W1 AMSR2 Sea Ice Concentration (source) from 01 February to 09 March (above) showed the northward retreat of ice from... Read More

A series of GCOM-W1 AMSR2 swaths during the period from 2256 UTC on 28 November to 1692 UTC on 30 November 2018 (above) showed the global coverage of Total Precipitable Water and Wind Speed products from that polar-orbiting satellite.A closer look just south of the Atlantic provinces of Canada (above) showed... Read More