Spatial and temporal variations in the age structure of Arctic sea ice

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Belchansky, G I ^a   Douglas, David C ^b   Platonov, N G ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

AGE STRUCTURE; ICE AGE; REVERSE CHRONOLOGY ALGORITHMS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

SEA ICE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

EID: 27744607776     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023976     Document Type: Article

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