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Arctic sea-ice minimum

Arctic sea ice usually reaches its smallest extent of the year in mid-September.

Window: 5 September to 30 September each year.

2024-08-10 and 2025-10-28 Sentinel-1

Ilulissat Icefjord and Disko Bay, Greenland, August 2024 to October 2025

Thirty-eight Sentinel-1 passes at a twelve-day interval record the icefjord's discharge, the freeze and break-up of Disko Bay, and the seasonal advance and retreat of sea ice over fifteen months.

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