Record Low Volume of Arctic Sea Ice?
Arctic sea ice extent will most likely not reach the record minimum set back in September 2007 as you can see by the latest NSIDC plot below, and the fact that the summer melt season is most likely over.
However, according to climate experts from the World Wildlife Federation (WWF) International Arctic Program, Arctic sea ice may have reached its lowest level of total volume ever recorded this year when you combine the overall thickness of the ice and the extent. (At this time, I could not find anything online to confirm this or can this be confirmed at all?)
"If you take reduced ice thickness into account, there is probably less ice overall in the Arctic this year than in any other year since monitoring began," said Martin Sommerkorn, WWF International Arctic Programme’s Senior Climate Change Advisor.
I found this graph showing a combined experimental simulation of Arctic sea ice volume vs. time (1950-2050) from NOAA/GFDL.
