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Thanks! I poked around climate.gov for a bit and did a teeny bit of scraping but lost steam, might come back to it, but kind of treating it like "if it happens, it happens"
The United States has an interest in knowing the full extent of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from shore (called the extended continental shelf, or ECS) so that it can better protect, manage and use the resources of the seabed and subsoil contained therein. The USGS contributes to the ECS effort through membership and leadershi...
First, ice extent/ area, we can clearly see yearly fluctuations, in fact they tend to dominate the plot... Monthly sea ice area (million km^2) from 1979 to now... one approach to make the chart more helpful might be to just show yearly averages... Yearly mean sea ice area NOTE: At the time I'm writing this 2022 data is incomplete so mean calcula...
An attempt at reproducing Derek Watkins and Jeremiy White's animation of trillions of tons of ice collapsing into the sea. (Here's the article; here's Derek's blog post.) We first start with gradients and color cycling. Jeremy White generated gradients on bezier curves that reflected the directions and speeds of ice flow. To make the ice flow, w...
