Modeling the summertime evolution of sea-ice melt ponds

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Lüthje, Mikael ^a   Feltham, D L ^b,c   Taylor, P D ^b   Worster, M Grae ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEEPAGE; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

MELTING; SEA ICE; SEEPAGE;

EID: 33645635534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002818     Document Type: Article

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