Canadian cryospheric response to an anomalous warm summer: A synthesis of the climate change action fund project " the state of the Arctic cryosphere during the extreme warm summer of 1998"

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 347-375

  Atkinson, D E ^a,k   Brown, R ^b   Alt, B ^c   Agnew, T ^b   Bourgeois, J ^a   Burgess, M ^a   Duguay, C ^d,k   Henry, G ^e   Jeffers, S ^b   Koerner, R ^a   Lewkowicz, A G ^f   McCourt, S ^b   Melling, H ^g   Sharp, M ^h   Smith, S ^a   Walker, A ^b   Wilson, K ^b   Wolfe, S ^a   Woo, M K ⁱ   Young, K L ^j  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Balanced Environments Associates   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^g INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

ⁱ MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOSPHERE; SUMMER; WARMING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33846668757     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/ao.440403     Document Type: Article

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