Modelling the impacts of persistent Antarctic polynyas with an atmosphere-sea-ice general circulation model

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 8-9, 2003, Pages 1357-1372

  Wu, Xingren ^a,b,c,d   Budd, W F ^a   Allison, Ian ^a,b  

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

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c US National Ice Center   (United States)

^d QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COASTAL POLYNYAS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT FLUX; MODELING; POLYNYA; SEA ICE;

(EAST); AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 0038548434     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00072-9     Document Type: Article

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