Wintertime heat flux to the underside of east Antarctic pack ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C12, 2000, Pages 28759-28769

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; PACK ICE; SEA ICE; WINTER;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0034472894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc900099     Document Type: Article

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