Low Sea-Ice Cover in the Arctic: Second-Lowest September Minimum
able to make a final assessment of the sea-ice minimum in 2019. It appears unlikely that we will see a new absolute record this year, which would have to be below the sea-ice extent of 3.4 million square [...] . The lowest value so far for 2019 was 3.82 million square kilometers, observed on September 3. This means that this year, the September average could be below 4 million square kilometers for the second [...] Sea: on September 20, the research icebreaker Polarstern will set sail from Tromsø, in Norway, for the start of the MOSAiC expedition. In the northern Laptev Sea they will search for a suitable ice floe