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✧ leopard seal ✧

The leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), also known as the sea leopard, is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic, after the southern elephant seal. Its only natural predators are the killer whale and possibly the elephant seal. It feeds on a wide range of prey including cephalopods, other pinnipeds, krill, birds and fish. Together ...

#Hydrurga #AntarcticSound #Antarctic #Weddell #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_seal

Two interesting cases to investigate #Arctic and #Antarctic #SeaIce anomalies:

1) Northern tip of #Greenland and Wandel Sea

2) Eastern #Weddell Western Indian #Ocean Sector

Animation from AMSR2 passive microwave observations of the last few days.

The #seaice in the #Weddell Sea now has the 3rd-lowest extent on record for this time of year. The extent was lower only in 1981 and 1999.

The concentration map shows the anomaly within the first 11 days of April.

Source: #OSISAF

Status of the #January #seaice in the #Antarctic:

- Sea-ice extent was clearly *record-low* for January this year.
- Large negative sea-ice anomalies are seen in #Bellinghausen, #Amundsen/#Ross, and even an open-water region in the eastern #Weddell Sea

Source: #OSISAF