Recent increase in the length of the melt season of perennial Arctic sea ice

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 655-658

  Smith, Douglas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE GASES; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

MELT SEASON; PERENNIAL ARCTIC SEA ICE;

SEA ICE; ICE;

GLOBAL WARMING; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

AIR TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ALBEDO FEEDBACKS; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; FREEZE-UP; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LOCAL EFFECTS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA;

EID: 0032030340     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00251     Document Type: Article

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