Thinning of the Arctic Sea-Ice cover

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3469-3472

  Rothrock, D A ^a   Yu, Y ^a   Maykut, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; SEA ICE;

SEA-ICE COVER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ICE BREAKUP; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033501849     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010863     Document Type: Article

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