Title,"Figure 3. Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season, 1979-2023",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Short title,Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Source,EPA's Climate Change Indicators in the United States: www.epa.gov/climate-indicators,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Data source,"Data source: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). (2024, December 17). Update to NASA. (2023). <i>Arctic sea ice melt</i>. https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/arctic-sea-ice-melt.<br/>Web update: December 2024",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Short data source,"Data source: NASA, 2024<sup><a href=""#ref9"">9</a></sup><br/>Web update: December 2024",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Units,Julian days (start date and end date); days (duration),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
x-ticks,"1,6,11,16,21,26,31,36,41,46",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
y-axis,Date,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
x-axis,Year,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023
Year interval,5,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Data - start date,Start date,6/18/1979,6/14/1980,6/13/1981,6/17/1982,6/18/1983,6/17/1984,6/11/1985,6/16/1986,6/18/1987,6/15/1988,6/15/1989,6/11/1990,6/16/1991,6/15/1992,6/8/1993,6/10/1994,6/5/1995,6/15/1996,6/10/1997,6/7/1998,6/7/1999,6/9/2000,6/11/2001,6/11/2002,6/8/2003,6/9/2004,6/4/2005,6/7/2006,6/6/2007,6/8/2008,6/10/2009,6/10/2010,6/5/2011,6/5/2012,6/13/2013,6/10/2014,6/4/2015,6/7/2016,6/14/2017,6/14/2018,6/7/2019,6/10/2020,6/9/2021,6/16/2022,6/4/2023
Data - start,Start,169.275,166.438,164.909,168.775,169.446,169.776,162.98,167.216,169.926,167.188,166.974,162.392,167.042,167.529,159.173,161.598,156.285,167.813,161.075,158.665,158.979,161.866,162.264,162.108,159.808,161.179,155.991,158.285,157.275,160.991,161.969,161.968,156.958,157.354,164.192,161.211,155.583,159.16,165.139,165.615,158.31,162.057,160.908,167.583,155.543
Data - duration,Duration,88.412,91.913,91.975,87.8,87.883,94.335,95.595,87.146,89.194,94.337,97.891,102.494,97.833,92.476,106.106,101.178,117.699,91.299,103.818,110.804,107.38,103.601,101.587,107.646,110.657,109.281,117.306,115.495,131.019,118.794,120.603,118.685,124.919,128.453,106.353,115.147,124.049,128.902,110.19,112.693,127.937,126.871,116.943,112.222,138.632
Data - end date,End date,9/14/1979,9/14/1980,9/13/1981,9/13/1982,9/14/1983,9/20/1984,9/15/1985,9/11/1986,9/16/1987,9/17/1988,9/21/1989,9/21/1990,9/21/1991,9/16/1992,9/22/1993,9/19/1994,9/30/1995,9/15/1996,9/21/1997,9/26/1998,9/23/1999,9/21/2000,9/20/2001,9/26/2002,9/27/2003,9/26/2004,9/30/2005,9/30/2006,10/15/2007,10/5/2008,10/9/2009,10/7/2010,10/8/2011,10/11/2012,9/27/2013,10/3/2014,10/6/2015,10/14/2016,10/2/2017,10/5/2018,10/13/2019,10/14/2020,10/4/2021,10/6/2022,10/20/2019
Data - end,End,257.687,258.351,256.884,256.575,257.329,264.111,258.575,254.362,259.12,261.525,264.865,264.886,264.875,260.006,265.279,262.776,273.984,259.112,264.893,269.47,266.359,265.467,263.851,269.754,270.466,270.46,273.297,273.78,288.294,279.785,282.573,280.653,281.877,285.807,270.545,276.358,279.632,288.063,275.33,278.307,286.247,288.928,277.851,279.805,294.175