Arctic sea ice shrinks to record low: Report - thestar.com

Johannessen stressed his measurement was of the “area” of ice, now less than 4.0 million sq km (1.5 million sq miles), omitting the open water between ice floes.

The NSIDC prefers a bigger “extent,” including such gaps, on the grounds that pools of meltwater that form on sea ice are hard to distinguish from open ocean.
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“We had quite a big ice cover in March 2012, above average. But because there is little long-term ice it melts more quickly in summer,” he said.

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