Sea ice thickness in the southwestern Sea of Okhotsk revealed by a moored ice-profiling sonar

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Fukamachi, Yasushi ^a   Mizuta, Genta ^a   Ohshima, Kay I ^a   Toyota, Takenobu ^a   Kimura, Noriaki ^a   Wakatsuchi, Masaaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; FLOW OF WATER; HEAT TRANSFER; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA ICE; SONAR; STATISTICS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; DATA SET; ICE THICKNESS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SONAR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; DAVIS STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 34248153165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003327     Document Type: Article

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