As July draws to a close, the waning solar heating is increasingly obvious at high latitudes and this will accelerate in the coming weeks. However, because of the thermal lag of the oceans, Arctic sea ice continues to melt into September. This summer, sea ice conditions between the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the Arctic have diverged even more than most recent years.
The spatial distribution of sea ice around the Arctic at the end of July was broadly similar to last year at this…
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