Animated Maps: Arctic Sea Ice Age Decline

At the World Economic Forum this week in Davos, Switzerland, the young climate change activist Greta Thunberg had stern words for the world’s most powerful people. Citing the work of the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, she chided the attendees for doing “basically nothing” to confront the climate crisis.
“I know you don’t want to talk about this,” she said. “But I assure you I will keep repeating these numbers until you do.”
The numbers coming out of the Arctic, one of the world’s best Petri dishes for studying climate change, bear repeating. As recently as the mid-1980’s, according to Scientific American, thick ice-more than four years old-covered one-third of the Arctic. Today, it accounts for just over one percent of the area. The rest of the ice is younger and thinner, and therefore more vulnerable to melting during the summer months.
If the numbers are clear, this map, which graphically depicts the decline of Arctic sea ice from 1984 to the present, is even clearer.
This animated map was made using Esri's ArcGIS Pro, GDAL, Cinema 4D, Redshift, and Adobe After Effects. Please visit ow.ly/fm2950xgu0B for more information about ArcGIS Pro.
Data Sources:
Tschudi, M., W. N. Meier, J. S. Stewart, C. Fowler, and J. Maslanik. 2019. EASE-Grid Sea Ice Age, Version 4. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: doi.org/10.5067/UTAV7490FEPB.
Tschudi, M., W. N. Meier, and J. S. Stewart. 2019. Quicklook Arctic Weekly EASE-Grid Sea Ice Age, Version 1. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: doi.org/10.5067/2XXGZY3DUGNQ
Music: Singularity by ANBR
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[@mamashopping5992]

@Esri PLEASE I WANT HOW THESE MAP ANIMATION ARE PRODUCED WHAT ABOUT OF THE PROGRAMS USE FOR MAKE PRESENTATION SAME LIKE THAT

[@marcoorlandi6941]

Tutorial(s) on animated maps, please!!!

[@esrimaps]

Hey Marco, we plan on releasing some tutorials in March that go over how these animations are made. Be sure to subscribe to the channel so you can be notified when they are published.

[@toritsejuomatseye2688]

@@esrimaps hello. did you ever post the tutorials, i am really interested in learning how to make all types of animated maps

[@haeminkim2733]

Can I use these animated images in my newsletter for sharing international news about global warming? I wish to know the copyright standards of your service.

[@esrimaps]

Hey there! You are free to link to and embed this video wherever you like.

[@flobie1kenobi]

so... whats the south pole up to?

[@SoItGoes1985]

That is damning.

[@oryeus]

That is sad to watch.

[@georgedavidson2111]

I went through the paper published in Feb 2018 in The Journal of Geology about extraordinary biomass burning around 10,800 BCE. I found it fascinating. Would anybody be willing to have a look at the following statement? Any comments are appreciated. Thank you. "Around 10,800 BCE, likely within the span of 21 years between 10,818 BCE and 10,797 BCE, ∼9% of Earth's terrestrial biomass, on ∼10 million km2 (area as big as the US), burned. The concentrations of soot, used to estimate the global amount of biomass burned, suggest that wildfires around 10,800 BCE consumed considerably more biomass than during the K-Pg extinction event. It would be interesting to calculate how much CO2 must have been released when ∼9% of world terrestrial biomass on ∼10 million km2 burned. The wildfires on 70,000 km² in Australia this year are estimated to release about 900 million tons of CO2, which equals to double the country's total yearly fossil fuel emissions."

[@lelova1323]

It looks like the east greenland stream is to strong, it eat up the pool ice. And its maby getting a little warmer, but the sinner is the stream, it looks like.

[@lelova1323]

Specielly from 1988, it took till.

[@russb7268]

My problem with this is that the animation starts from the year 1984. The arctic ice cap was at its thinnest in 1955 at 0.94 metres mean sea ice thickness after which it refroze to achieve a thickness of 2.78 metres in 1978. The thickness of the arctic ice was one reason for the global cooling prediction. Now that the temperature has warmed again, the ice is 1.78 metres in 2017. This all just sounds like another cycle to me but I could be wrong.

[@kevinrose4795]

The statistics you cite for dates prior to what is presented in this video are from a study conducted at one site in the Arctic and published in JGR Oceans in 2018. Because this early data is from one site the ice thickness across all of the Arctic cannot be inferred. The above maps are from the modern satellite record which show the entire region. The choice of 1984 is done because it corresponds to the modern satellite record that enables characterization of the entire Arctic. Additionally, there was only one measurement at this site in 1955 and not another one until 1974. Therefore, not only is it impossible to use that site as representative of the entire Arctic, is it also difficult to infer long-term trends from such a paucity of data.

[@PICADALOL]

rip humanity xxxx b.c - 2030

[@jeanmartin9318]

Soon BOE ?

[@Weskeyonetwo]

Even if that computor model animation was true it is not proof that man made CO2 emmissions are responsible.

[@mcddoug9302]

Looks to be consistent no change

[@thorr18BEM]

Um, look at 01:35 and put your glasses on first.

[@SweBeach2023]

Such positive changes. Soon a new trade route will be able to open from Europe to the Far East.

[@TimmmTim]

man... what?

[@sexton_hale24verinaud66]

@@TimmmTim I love people who just are optimistic enough that they are blind

[@aliensguy4291]

So you are one of the capitalists who values wealth more than having a planet to enjoy that wealth on? What will you say when places in the tropics become UNLIVEABLY hot and ice is no longer naturally occurring? Say goodbye to ski resorts and snow capped mountains, say goodbye to the gorgeous ice caves beneath some glaciers if mankind doesn't fix this, your great grandchildren may never see snow, or build snowmen in the winter or have snowball fights... Naturally occurring snow and ice will not he possible If we don't do something, those things will be gone forever

[@FazeParticles]

it's an ice age. it warms first then is cools severely. new ice sheets will be made bigger than before.

[@harmonythink-say-do2980]

Source?

[@LK-pc4sq]

@@harmonythink-say-do2980 he is wrong. global co2 emissions dictate a hot house earth or ice age. Search scripts co2 animation curve on youtube

[@frankiedigioia]

Oh well. It is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of time over the billions of years earth has been around.

[@thorr18BEM]

Frank DiGioia , so is the existence of humans. What's your point?

[@raymondvasquez1268]

@@thorr18BEM Global warming existed before humans.

[@that_pac123]

@@raymondvasquez1268 if you erroneously define global warming as any time the temperature rises and not as an unprecedented rapid warming event specific to our epoch attributable to human activity