Opposing Southern Ocean climate patterns as revealed by trends in regional sea ice coverage

Climatic Change

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 617-639

  Stammerjohn, S E ^a   Smith, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PATTERN; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ICE COVER; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA ICE COVER; TIME SERIES;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0030723780     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005331731034     Document Type: Article

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