The area of ​​ice in the Arctic has declined to the lowest since the beginning of satellite observations – scientists – Tatar-inform (subscription)

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 Ice cover in the Arctic is expanding in autumn and winter, reaching a peak between late February and April.

(Kazan, March 21, “Tatar-Inform”). The maximum ice cover in the Arctic this year amounted to 14.54 million sq. Kilometers. It is the smallest area of ​​ice in the Arctic since the start of satellite observations, reported at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The representative of the National Centre in Boulder Natasha Vizcarra said that in the projections’ Center uses only its own satellite data “rather than information about the Arctic observations of scientists from other countries, the TASS.

The ice cover in the Arctic is expanding in autumn and winter, reaching a peak between late February and April, and then gradually reduced to a minimum in September. This year, according to American researchers, the ice cover in the Arctic reached a maximum by 25 February, 15 days earlier than the average for the period from 1981 to 2010. In 1996 alone, the maximum occurred at an earlier date – February 24.