Effects of snow depth forcing on Southern Ocean sea ice simulations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Powell, Dylan C ^a   Markus, Thorsten ^b   Stössel, Achim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE THICKNESS; SEA ICE; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 23144446022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JC002212     Document Type: Article

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