Summer kicks into high gear in June across the Arctic with (near) continuous daylight and the rapid loss of snow and ice cover.
Arctic sea ice extent decreased about 18 percent during June (Fig. 1) and at the end of month was very low but not quite at the record low level of June 2024. There remains a significant split between the Atlantic and Pacific sectors in ice extent relative to the long term average. On the Atlantic side. the Barents Sea ice extent is the lowest of record…
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