Ice floe distribution in the Sea of Okhotsk in the period when sea-ice extent is advancing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Inoue, Jun ^a   Wakatsuchi, Masaaki ^b   Fujiyoshi, Yasushi ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3250 Mathematical Geophysics: Fractals and multifractals; 4207 Oceanography: General: Arctic and Antarctic oceanography; 4504 Oceanography: Physical: Air sea interactions (0312); 4540 Oceanography: Physical: Ice mechanics and air sea ice exchange processes; 4560 Oceanography: Physical: Surface waves and tides (1255)

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

ICE FLOE DISTRIBUTION; MARGINAL ICE ZONE (MIZ); POWER LAW; WAVE STRESS;

SEA ICE;

AIRBORNE SENSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK; WORLD;

EID: 11844305909     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020809     Document Type: Article

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