Briefing on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice - August 2019
million square km below the 1981-2010 average, and only 0.09 million square km above the lowest value for this date, which occurred in 2012 (Figure 1). Figure 1. Daily Arctic sea ice extent since April 2019, compared with recent years and the 1981-2010 average with ± 1 and 2 standard deviation