Sensitivity of the Antarctic sea ice distribution to its advection in a general circulation model

Antarctic Science

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 445-455

  Wu, Xingren ^a   Budd, W F ^b   Simmonds, Ian ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advection; Dynamics; Ice distribution; Sea ice model; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; GCM; ICE COVER; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0030690240     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0954102097000588     Document Type: Article

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