Optical properties of melting landfast sea ice and underlying seawater in Santala Bay, Gulf of Finland

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Ehn, Jens ^a,b   Granskog, Mats A ^a,c   Reinart, Anu ^d   Erm, Ants ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Brackish water sea ice; Optical properties; Spring transition

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTY; SEA ICE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF FINLAND; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 22944478963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JC002042     Document Type: Article

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