Properties of sea ice and overlying snow in the Southern Sea of Okhotsk

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 393-411

  Toyota, Takenobu ^a   Takatsuji, Shinya ^b   Tateyama, Kazutaka ^c   Naoki, Kazuhiro ^d   Ohshima, Kay I ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KITAMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fractionation coefficient; Ice growth processes; Sea ice; Sea of Okhotsk; Snow; Snow ice; Stable isotopic composition

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FREEZING; ICE THICKNESS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SEA ICE; SEAWATER; SNOW; SNOW ACCUMULATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 34248185622     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-007-0037-2     Document Type: Article

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