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Area of sea ice in the Arctic measured yearly in September (1979 to 2015)

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A data frame with 37 observations on the following 5 variables.

Year

Year (1979 - 2015)

Extent

Extent of arctic sea ice (in million square km)

Area

Area of arctic sea ice (in million square km)

t

Index for year (t=1 in 1979)

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Data from ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/Sep/N_09_areaV2.txt updated data from

Witt, G. (2103) "Using Data from Climate Science to Teach Introductory Statistics," JSE 21:1 available at www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v21n1/witt.pdf

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