Properties of the Arctic 2-meter air temperature field for 1979 to the present derived from a new gridded dataset

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1428-1440

  Martin, Seelye ^a   Munoz, Esther A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FIELD;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0031399518     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<1428:POTAMA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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