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Arctic Report Card for 2023
December 23 , 2023
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- The year 2023 shattered the record for the warmest summer in the Arctic.
- Temperatures in the Arctic have been rising more than three times faster than the global average.
- Greenland’s ice sheet summit recorded melting in late June, only its fifth melting event on record.
- Sea surface temperatures in the Barents, Kara, Laptev and Beaufort seas were 9 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit (5 to 7 degrees Celsius) above normal in August.
- Snow accumulation during the winter of 2022-23 was above average across much the Arctic.
- Shifts in wind patterns and increasingly intense ocean storms.
- Yukon River Chinook have decreased in size by about 6% since the 1970s.
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