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http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008
Ice area is a better gauge (than extent) of the length of the melt season, because it is affected less by the wind blowing the ice edge around. As you can see, after September 8, formation of new ice became dominant in the Arctic. All of the area graphs show the same thing.
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Area.png
Joe Romm pictures the Arctic melting at -20ºC, but that only occurs in the world of global climate disruption.
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/POPS13_atmos_recent.html
09/20/1800Z 83.575°N 3.497°E -16.2°C 1010.8mb 09/20/1700Z 83.577°N 3.494°E -16.1°C 1011.5mb 09/20/1300Z 83.582°N 3.478°E -15.2°C 1010.1mb 09/20/1200Z 83.584°N 3.469°E -14.9°C 1009.6mb 09/20/1100Z 83.585°N 3.459°E -15.7°C 1009.3mb 09/20/1000Z 83.586°N 3.447°E -16.6°C 1009.5mb 09/20/0900Z 83.588°N 3.437°E -17.1°C 1009.1mb 09/20/0800Z 83.589°N 3.428°E -17.6°C 1008.8mb 09/20/0300Z 83.603°N 3.431°E -20.1°C 1007.0mb 09/20/0200Z 83.608°N 3.432°E -21.9°C 1007.3mb 09/20/0100Z 83.613°N 3.429°E -19.5°C 1008.0mb 09/20/0000Z 83.618°N 3.420°E -17.5°C 1009.2mb 09/19/2300Z 83.623°N 3.409°E -15.0°C 1009.7mb
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