Antarctic sea ice extent (IMAGE)

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Antarctic sea ice extent

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Upper; Details of seasonal changes for 2021-2022. There was no significant decrease in sea ice extent until around September 2021, but a gradual downward trend was observed from around October, and the sea ice extent remained at about the third smallest on record for the period since the 2000s. Since the beginning of 2022, the sea ice extent remained relatively small, although no extreme decrease was seen, and the decreasing trend continued after February, reaching 2,128,000 km2 on February 20, 2022, the lowest value ever recorded. Lower; Annual minimum of the Antarctic sea ice extent from 1979 to 2022.

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