This is via the Canadian Ice Service, and it's a view I have not seen before. It shows a polar view looking down at the North pole which is a composite of several days worth of MODIS views via NASA Goddard to create a Composite of the Arctic image. The actual image is very high resolution and I can't show it fully here, but the detail is quite good. To help orient you, I've annotated some landmarks on this preview image.
You can see the full image here, and click the image again to zoom in on it. The sheer magnitude of area covered by ice and snow is quite impressive, and it's a useful image to show to "I read the headline only" alarmists who believe that the North pole is either burning up, missing most of its ice and snow, or both.
I'd love to include this on the WUWT sea ice page, but unfortunately, Environment Canada has chosen to produce this image from a Perl Script, rather than an image URL, and I have no way that I know of to parse the most current image out of the URL:
http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/cgi-bin/getprod.pl?prodid=MODISCOM-T&wrap=0&lang=en
If anyone has any ideas, please leave a comment.
Comment: We're well into Spring and the US has been relentlessly battered by cold storms since winter. But it's not just the US seeing unusual cold blasts, it's happening all over the globe. The visual above confirms all the data that has been collected over recent years, which is that snow and ice are increasing because the planet is clearly cooling:
- Where's Spring? Below freezing temps and snow as Arctic blast set to return to UK - cold expected to last till MAY
- Arctic sea ice advances further each year, and this years growth is faster than expected
- The coming ice age - Antarctic peninsula has been cooling not warming
- Antarctic snowfall has increased 10% in the last 200 years
- Huge increase in snowfall over Antarctica say NASA, growing since 1900
- France: This winter it snowed too much, to the point of preventing ski resorts from breaking attendance recordst
But global warming fanatics will be relieved to hear there is some heating occurring: Antarctic ice shelves revealed to be rapidly melting...from below