New thread as presuambly of international significance as the media ,
where mentioning this global minimum, refers to the Wipneus data plots.
I've rechecked my transcriptions and summations from the last 5 records
on the primary source, for the simple global extent

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ch...sea-ice-graph/

and contrary to the plot on , apparently ceased updating , or my browser
not doing so

https://sites.google.com/site/arctis...t_byyear_b.png


I don't have any recent uptick representaion, of recent increasing
global sea-ice extent
I get, in millions of sq km, inexorable depletion of sea-ice
16 Jan 2017, 16.692
17 Jan, 16.593
18 Jan, 16.507
19 Jan, 16.455
20 Jan, 16.444
(would someone else check my figures?)

Anyone know which version is corrct?
I suspect Wipneus is using a different data feed than the Charctic one,
area rather than extent perhaps, JAXA ?