Winter snow cover on sea ice in the Weddell Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1101-1117

  Massom, Robert A ^a   Drinkwater, Mark R ^b   Haas, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLICITY; SEA ICE; SNOW; SNOW CHARACTERISTICS; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VARIABILITY; VARIATION; WINTER COVER;

WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 0030911270     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jc02992     Document Type: Article

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