Weekly Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Age with Graph of Ice Age by Percent of Total: 1984 – 2016. Arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, it’s becoming younger and thinner as well.
In this animation, where the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons, cryospheric scientist Dr. Walt Meier of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center describes how the sea ice has undergone fundamental changes during the era of satellite measurements.
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space flight Center/Jefferson Beck
Via http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4509 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1G9gqhkYA