Investigation of the dynamic sea ice component of a coupled atmosphere-sea ice general circulation model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue C8, 1998, Pages 15751-15782

  O'Farrell, Siobhan P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE COVER; SEA ICE; WIND STRESS;

EID: 0032528602     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jc00815     Document Type: Article

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