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January 2019 Statewide Report and Cities Summary Available

Our monthly statewide report for January 2019 is available here.

Our monthly 9 cities summary can be found here.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent 1-31-2019

January 31, 2019: This week the sea ice increase rose at at an extremely small rate of 0.88% from last week's level of 13.929 M km2 to 14.052 M km2 for this week; and so the rate of growth trend is still just about even with the rate in 2012 (green line) for this time of year.

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December 2018 Statewide Report and Cities Summary Available

Our monthly statewide report for December 2018 is available here.

Our monthly 9 cities summary can be found here.
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Current Weather Station Data (As of: 02/21/19 02:01:10)
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Spotlight on Climate

Annual Summary Report 2018

2018 Alaska Climate Summary

Statewide 2018 Year in Review

2018 was significantly warmer than the climatological mean and one of the warmest years on record in Alaska. The fall season in particular stood out as exceptionally warm.

 

See also: 2018 NOAA Arctic Report Card

 

New Papers-

On the Precipitation and Precipitation Change in Alaska

Atmosphere Download it here.

On the Climate and Climate Change of Sitka, Southeast Alaska

Theoretical and Applied Climatology. Download it here.

Strong Temperature Increase and Shrinking Sea Ice in Arctic Alaska

The Open Atmospheric Science Journal. Download it here.

Book -

The Climate of Alaska

Produced by the Alaska Climate Research Center in 2007 by Martha Shulski and Gerd Wendler. Click here for more details!

 

For other papers please see our research page.

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