{"id":47906,"date":"2022-09-13T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=47906"},"modified":"2022-09-16T14:57:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:57:01","slug":"unusually-low-ice-concentration-in-the-beaufort-sea-and-chukchi-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/47906","title":{"rendered":"Unusually low ice concentration in the Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/09\/2209013_suomiNPP_viirs_visible_Beaufort_Sea_2_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/09\/beau_vis-20220913_204801.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/09\/2209013_suomiNPP_viirs_visible_Beaufort_Sea_2_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A sequence of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a large area of ice-free water in the western Beaufort Sea and eastern Chukchi Sea north of Alaska &#8212; with limited sea ice concentration as far north as 80\u00ba N latitude &#8212; on 13 September 2022. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>False Color RGB images from NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP, viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> provided another depiction of the large ice-free region the Beaufort Sea (as well as adjacent portions of the Chukchi Sea).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/09\/220913_noaa20_suomiNPP_viirs_falseColorRGB_Beaufort_Sea_Chukchi_Sea_ice_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/09\/220913_2058utc_n20_fc.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">False Color RGB images from NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Sea Ice Concentration (based on the NOAA Enterprise Algorithm) at 0000 UTC on 13 September <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> also showed limited ice coverage and concentration extending past 80\u00ba N latitude.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/09\/220913_0000utc_seaIceConcentration.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/09\/220913_0000utc_seaIceConcentration.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea Ice Concentration at 0000 UTC on 13 September [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to Rick Thoman (University of Alaska, Fairbanks), Beaufort Sea ice extent was the 9th lowest on record for this date:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AlaskaWx\/status\/1569724243864334336\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible images (above) showed a large area of ice-free water in the western Beaufort Sea and eastern Chukchi Sea north of Alaska &#8212; with limited sea ice concentration as far north as 80\u00ba N latitude &#8212; on 13 September 2022. \u00a0 False Color RGB images from NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP, viewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,108,78,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arctic","category-cryosphere","category-noaa-20","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47906"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47913,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47906\/revisions\/47913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}