Seasonally dependent interannual variability of sea ice in the Bering Sea and its relation to atmospheric fluctuations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Sasaki, Yoshi N ^a   Minobe, Shoshiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; SEA ICE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER; WIND;

BERING SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 22144459845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002486     Document Type: Article

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