Arctic ocean variability derived from historical observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Polyakov, Igor ^a   Walsh, David ^a   Dmitrenko, Igor ^a   Colony, Roger L ^a   Timokhov, Leonid A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS; SURFACE WATERS;

SEA-SURFACES; ARCTIC OCEAN; HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGIES; HISTORICAL DATA; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATOLOGY;

GLOBAL CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; POLAR VORTEX; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0043192800     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016441     Document Type: Article

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