Ook het NSIDC maakt er melding van:
Another feature of note is the region of open water (Figure 2d) along the north coast of Greenland, around Cape Morris Jesup, which is visible on August 13 in Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra true color imagery from NASA WorldView. The region normally consists of thick, consolidated ice from a general pattern of on-shore ice motion. Even when winds blow offshore, the strength of the thick ice would hold in place along the coast. However, current ice conditions appear more broken up and likely thinner, and over the past couple of weeks, offshore winds have succeeded in pushing ice off of the coast.
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Verder vermelden ze in hun rapport over de stijging van de luchdruk in het poolgebied tijdens de 1e twee weken van augustus.
Sea level pressure was above average over the central Arctic Ocean, a change from last month, flanked by areas of below-average pressure in the Kara Sea and northern Canada (Figure 2b). Temperatures at 925 hPa (about 2,500 feet altitude) were generally 1 to 5 degrees Celsius (2 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit) above average over much of the Arctic Ocean for this period, with the area just north of Greenland reaching 5 to 7 degrees Celsius (9 to 13 degrees Fahrenheit) above average (Figure 2c).
Dit bevestigd mijn eerder verhaal.
In juli lagedruk boven de Noordelijke IJszee die in Europa de zomer in stand hield. Nadat de luchtdruk en temperatuur boven het poolgebied gestegen is het Nederland wisselvalliger geworden.
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