Climate variability in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 697-709

  Jacobs, Stanley S ^a   Comiso, Josefino C ^b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; REGIONAL WEATHER PATTERN; SEA ICE;

AMUNDSEN SEA; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA;

EID: 0030854209     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0697:CVITAA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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