{"id":1789193,"date":"2020-08-31T10:58:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789193"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:58:54","slug":"monitoring-the-arctic-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/08\/monitoring-the-arctic-heat-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring the Arctic Heat Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ESA\/Copernicus Sentinel (CC licence<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The European Space Agency has a post about monitoring the Arctic heat wave<\/a> (mainly, it seems, through the Copernicus program<\/a>). It’s illustrated by a few startling images from this summer: of Siberia’s wildfires<\/a>, the record-low levels of Arctic sea ice<\/a>, and (above) a map showing the land surface temperatures on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut on 11 August<\/a>, when Eureka, Nunavut—80° N—had a record high of 21.9°C (71.4°F).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European Space Agency has a post about monitoring the Arctic heat wave (mainly, it seems, through the Copernicus program). It’s illustrated by a few startling images from this summer: of Siberia’s wildfires, the record-low… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[413,131,14,933,446,879,934,585,1072,1466],"class_list":["post-1789193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-arctic","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-ellesmere-island","tag-esa","tag-global-warming","tag-nunavut","tag-russia","tag-sea-ice","tag-siberia","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3512,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/12\/mapping-arctic-sea-ice\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789193,"position":0},"title":"Mapping Arctic Sea Ice","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 December 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Something's going on in the Arctic. As the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0reported last month, the Arctic Ocean was far, far warmer than normal\u2014about 20 degrees Celsius higher than average. (Meanwhile,\u00a0the air over Sibera is at record cold levels.) 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