Transoceanic wave propagation links iceberg calving margins of Antarctica with storms in tropics and Northern Hemisphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  MacAyeal, Douglas R ^a   Okal, Emile A ^a,b   Aster, Richard C ^c   Bassis, Jeremy N ^d   Brunt, Kelly M ^a   Cathles, L Mac ^a   Drucker, Robert ^e   Flicker, Helen A ^d   Kim, Young Jin ^a   Martin, Seelye ^e   Okal, Marianne H ^a,b   Sergienko, Olga V ^h   Sponsler, Mark P ^f   Thom, Jonathan E ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f Stormsurf   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; ICE; SEISMOLOGY; STORMS;

EXTRA-TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN; ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE; ROSS ICE SHELF;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

DATA SET; FLOATING ICE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICEBERG CALVING; MASS BALANCE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEAN WAVE; SEISMOMETRY; STORM; SWELL; TROPICAL REGION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANTARCTICA; CAPE ADARE; EAST ANTARCTICA; GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; ROSS ICE SHELF; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 33751313494     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027235     Document Type: Article

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