A 5-year satellite climatology of winter sea ice leads in the western Arctic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C10, 1998, Pages 21723-21734

  Miles, Martin W ^a,b,c   Barry, Roger G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ICE LEAD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0032531409     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC01997     Document Type: Article

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