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"On September 15, 2020, the sea ice cover reached its annual summer minimum, second-smallest on record: the area of the Arctic Ocean where sea ice concentration was at least 15 percent sea ice was 1.44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers). According to NOAA's 2020 Arctic Report Card, the downward trend for the summer minimum in September is 13.1 percent per decade relative to the 1981–2010 average. Dividing the satellite sea ice record into thirds, experts report that the average minimum extent for each third has successively declined: 6.85 million square kilometers (2.64 million square miles) for 1979-1992, 6.13 million square kilometers (2.37 million square miles) for 1993-2006, and 4.44 million square kilometers (1.71 million square miles) for 2007-2020. Read more in the 2020 Arctic Report Car"
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-minimum-arctic-sea-ice-extent https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-minimum-arctic-sea-ice-extent
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