Structure, salinity and isotopic composition of multi-year landfast sea ice in Nella Fjord, Antarctica

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 170-177

  Tang, Shulin ^a   Qin, Dahe ^a   Ren, Jiawen ^a   Kang, Jiancheng ^b   Li, Zhijun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

18O composition; Antarctic; Landfast sea ice; Multi year sea ice; Salinity; Structure

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; GRANULAR MATERIALS; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SNOW; TEXTURES;

FRAZIL ICE; ICE FORMATION PROCESS; LANDFAST SEA ICE;

SEA ICE;

ICE THICKNESS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST ICE SHEET; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SALINITY; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 34249905224     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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