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How do we know that sea ice at the poles is melting?
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How do we know that sea ice at the poles is melting? VIDEOGRAPHIC
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How do we know that sea ice at the poles is melting?
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Sea ice forms when seawater freezes on the surface in cold weather.
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In summer, part of it melts and reforms in winter.
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To measure its extent, weather agencies use satellite data, which can distinguish between
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the sea and the ice at the surface.
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At a certain concentration of white, generally 15%, a zone is considered covered by sea
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ice.
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By adding together the ice surfaces detected, the total area of sea ice can be measured
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each day.
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This is how we know that in September 2023, the month with the least ice in the North
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Pole, the sea ice extent was about 30% less than compared to the September average during
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the 20th century.
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