Winter snow cover variability on East Antarctic sea ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C11, 1998, Pages 24837-24855

  Massom, R A ^a   Lytle, V I ^a,b   Worby, A P ^a,b   Allison, I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WINTER;

(EAST); ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0032532899     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC01617     Document Type: Article

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