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Arctic Report Card: Update for 2021

Rapid and pronounced warming continues to drive the evolution of the Arctic environment

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Arctic Report Card 2021

Vital Signs

Arctic Ocean Primary Productivity: The Response of Marine Algae to Climate Warming and Sea Ice Decline

Other Indicators

Beaver Engineering: Tracking a New Disturbance in the Arctic

Frostbites

2020 Foreign Marine Debris Event—Bering Strait

Glacier and Permafrost Hazards

The Changing Arctic Marine Soundscape

The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Access for Alaska Natives in 2020

More Information

Arctic Report Card Data Portal

Animation: Arctic Sea Ice Age at Yearly Minimum (Years 1984-2021)

AGU Report Card Press Conference

AGU Press Conference Presentation

Arctic Essays

Videos and Animations

2021 Arctic Report Card on YouTube

Arctic Report Card Playlist on YouTube

ARC YouTube playlist

Animation

Arctic Sea Ice Age at Yearly Minimum (Years 1984-2021) - as seen in the Arctic Report Card 2021 video (credit: Eric Hackathorn, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory)

Description: Colors show the age of sea ice floating in the Arctic Ocean. The darkest blue areas on the map show seasonal or first-year ice, which formed during the most recent winter. White areas show where ice is more than four years old.

Scientists estimate the age of sea ice by combining satellite observations of ice locations and extent with buoy data on winds and motion. The temporal coverage for this data set is weekly data from January 1984 through December 2020. Data for 2021 comes from the Quicklook Arctic Weekly EASE-Grid Sea Ice Age data product.

The input ice motion data used for this data set is derived from the Polar Pathfinder daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors Version 4 data set.

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Arctic Report Card

Tracking recent environmental changes relative to historical records

Oceans

Conserving and managing our Arctic Ocean resources

Weather

Providing weather information to protect lives, property, and management

Satellites

Observing the Arctic ocean and atmosphere to understand and forecast Arctic change

Research

Providing environmental intelligence to understanding the complex Arctic system

Fisheries

Conserving and managing Arctic living marine resources and their habitats

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Issued annually since 2006, the Arctic Report Card is a timely and peer-reviewed source for clear, reliable and concise environmental information on the current state of different components of the Arctic environmental system relative to historical records. The Report Card is intended for a wide audience, including scientists, teachers, students, decision-makers and the general public interested in the Arctic environment and science.