random comment,
By Neven (Austria)
on July 21st, 2015
Best piece I’ve read on the subject. My compliments.
This research may be interpreted as showing that Arctic sea ice can recover, if given the chance (duh), but it can also be evidence of the wild swings one sees just before a system flips to a new state. Big swings and extremes somehow fail to comfort me.
Coincidentally the big question for this melting season is whether the rebound will remain intact or gets wiped out, as the past 3-4 weeks have been very warm and skies over large parts of the Arctic have been clear, especially in those regions where a lot of thicker, multi-year ice is situated. If it does get wiped out, the Arctic will remain poised for large losses and new records.
That means that anything can happen if a melting season starts out with little MYI and volume, the ice pack gets heavily preconditioned during May and June, and then weather conditions conducive to melting, compaction and transport finish the job in July and August.
source: comments section,
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-ice-volume-rebounds-19262?utm_source=f...