Tracking the Arctic's shrinking ice cover: Another extreme September minimum in 2004

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Stroeve, J C ^a   Serreze, M C ^a   Fetterer, F ^a   Arbetter, T ^a   Meier, W ^a   Maslanik, J ^b   Knowles, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROWAVES; SATELLITES; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; SEA ICE;

GREENHOUSE GAS LOADING; OCEANIC FORCINGS; SEA ICE COVER;

ICE;

ICE COVER; ICE RETREAT; SEA ICE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; GREENHOUSE GAS LOADING; ICE COVER; OCEANIC FORCINGS; RECENT TRENDS; SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SEA-ICE COVER;

EID: 19744364191     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021810     Document Type: Article

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