# 2019 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Continues Trend of Decline AMuz 21RLE8

Every year, sea ice fluctuates through the seasons, growing in the winter and shrinking in the summer. This year, Arctic sea ice reached its annual maximum on March 13, 2019. It wasn’t a record low, but it continued a trend of declining sea ice maximums and minimums.

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2019
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA Goddard
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019_Arctic_Sea_Ice_Maximum_Continues_Trend_of_Decline_AMuz_21RLE8.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Goddard
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