Sea Ice Yearly Minimums in the Arctic from 1979-2008

21 September 1979 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1979

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

10 September 1981 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1981

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

17 September 1982 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1982

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

18 September 1983 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1983

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

16 September 1984 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1984

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

07 September 1985 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1985

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

06 September 1986 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1986

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

02 September 1987 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1987

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

12 September 1988 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1988

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

23 September 1989 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1989

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

19 September 1990 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1990

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

16 September 1991 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1991

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

04 September 1992 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1992

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

11 September 1993 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1993

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

05 September 1994 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1994

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

01 October 1995 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1995

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

10 September 1996 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1996

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

19 September 1997 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1997

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

12 September 1998 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1998

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

September 1999 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1999

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

19 September 2001 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 2001

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

12 September 2002 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 2002

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

11 September 2003 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 2003

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

11 September 2004 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 2004

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

21 September 2005 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 2005

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

14 September 2006 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 2006

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

14 September 2007 Arctic sea ice minimum for 2007

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

12 September 2008 Arctic sea ice minimum for 2008

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

1997 2008

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

Average Global Land-Ocean Temperatures from 1880-2009

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Carbon Dioxide Part Per Million Vs. Time

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Sea-level Rise Projections.

IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M.Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

Global Mean Sea Level