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Arctic Ocean overheating<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Arctic sea ice extent was 10.31 million km\u00b2 on December 4, 2022. At this time of year, extent was smaller only in two years, i.e. in 2016 and 2020, both strong El Ni\u00f1o years. With the next El Ni\u00f1o, Arctic sea ice extent looks set to reach record lows.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0NOAA image<\/a>\u00a0on the right indicates that, while we’re still in the depths of a persistent La Ni\u00f1a, the next El Ni\u00f1o looks set to strike soon.<\/div>\n
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The image below shows high sea surface temperature anomalies near the Bering Strait on December 2, 2022, with a “hot blob” in the North Pacific Ocean where sea surface temperature anomalies are reaching as high as 7\u00b0C or 12.6\u00b0F from 1981-2011. The Jet Stream is stretched out vertically from pole to pole, enabling hot air to enter the Arctic from the Pacific Ocean and from the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

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The image below shows a forecast for December 5, 2022, of 2m temperature anomalies versus 1979-2000, with anomalies over parts of the Arctic Ocean near the top end of the scale.<\/div>\n
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On December 6, 2022, the Arctic was 6.63\u00b0C or 11.93\u00b0F warmer compared to 1979-2000, as illustrated by the image below.<\/div>\n
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The image below shows the daily average Arctic air temperature (2m) from 1979 up to December 6, 2022.<\/div>\n
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Given that we’re still in the depth of a persistent\u00a0La Ni\u00f1a, these currently very high air temperature anomalies\u00a0indicate that ocean temperatures are very high and that ocean heat is heating up the air over the Arctic.<\/p>\n

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Additionally, ocean heat is melting the sea ice from below.<\/p>\n

Accordingly,\u00a0Arctic sea ice has barely increased in thickness over the past 30 days, as illustrated by the\u00a0navy.mil animation<\/a>\u00a0on the right.<\/p>\n

This leaves only a very short time for Arctic sea ice to grow back in thickness before the melting season starts again, which means that there will be little or no\u00a0latent heat buffer<\/a> to consume heat when the melting season starts.
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Arctic Ocean overheating Arctic sea ice extent was 10.31 million km\u00b2 on December 4, 2022. At this time of year, extent was smaller only in two years, i.e. in 2016 and 2020, both strong El Ni\u00f1o years. With the next El Ni\u00f1o, Arctic sea ice extent looks set to reach record lows. The\u00a0NOAA image\u00a0on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1018,25914,7799,141,369],"class_list":["post-64407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-arctic","tag-arctic-news","tag-arctic-ocean","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64408,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64407\/revisions\/64408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}