Abrupt mid-twentieth-century decline in Antarctic sea-ice extent from whaling records

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6646, 1997, Pages 57-60

  De La Mare, William K ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ANTARCTIC DEEP WATER; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP WATER FORMATION; ICE COVER; SEA ICE; SEA ICE EXTENT; WHALING RECORD; WHALING RECORDS;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEASONAL VARIATION; WHALE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0030955327     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/37956     Document Type: Article

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