This year's Antarctic sea ice 'obliterates' previous minimum record

Antarctica has about 10 per cent less sea ice this year compared to the previous record minimum - a stunningreversal after an all-time high was recorded in 2014. In March 2017 the sea ice extent around Antarctica hasshrunk to 2.1091 million square kilometres.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lieser, JL
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: PolarNEWS 2017
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Online Access:http://ecite.utas.edu.au/116076
Description
Summary:Antarctica has about 10 per cent less sea ice this year compared to the previous record minimum - a stunningreversal after an all-time high was recorded in 2014. In March 2017 the sea ice extent around Antarctica hasshrunk to 2.1091 million square kilometres.