Characteristics of sea ice floe size distribution in the seasonal ice zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Toyota, Takenobu ^a   Takatsuji, Shinya ^b   Nakayama, Masashige ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nara Local Meteorological Observatory   (Japan)

^c Kushiro Children's Museum   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SEA ICE; SWELLING;

LATERAL MELTING; SEA ICE FLOE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SEASONAL ICE ZONE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ICEBERG; SEA ICE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33644745535     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024556     Document Type: Article

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