Snow depth on Arctic sea ice

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1814-1829

  Warren, Stephen G ^a,d   Rigor, Ignatius G ^a   Untersteiner, Norbert ^a   Radionov, Vladimir F ^b   Bryazgin, Nikolay N ^b   Aleksandrov, Yevgeniy I ^b   Colony, Roger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d Box 351640 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA ICE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; SNOW DEPTH;

SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT;

DENSITY; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032695410     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1814:SDOASI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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