ESSIC’s Alek Petty and Linette Boisvert contributed to a recent National Snow and Ice Data Center web-site post, regarding a record decline in Artic sea ice levels during February 2016. The average ice extent was the lowest on satellite record for the month, with data suggesting that the February ice extent has decreased by 3 percent per decade since 1979. The full article can be found in the link below.
![Figure 3. Monthly TPW anomaly time series shown in red for ERA5 and blue for MiRS SNPP, 2012-2021. The straight lines are the linear regression fits. [a] is for global, [b] for Tropics, and [c] for mid-latitude regions, respectively.](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/grassotti-zhou-150x150.png)
