Seasonal cycles in two regimes of Arctic climate

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C11, 1999, Pages 25761-25788

  Polyakov, I V ^a,b   Proshutinsky, A Y ^a   Johnson, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033571839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900208     Document Type: Article

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