A rapidly declining perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Comiso, Josefino C ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA ICE;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ICE COVER; ICE VOLUMES; MULTI-YEAR ICES; SATELLITE DATA; SEA-ICE COVER; SECOND-YEAR ICES;

ICE;

EID: 0037110233     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015650     Document Type: Article

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