A climatology of sea ice embayments in the Cosmonaut Sea, Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Geddes, Jeffrey A ^a   Moore, G W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

EMBAYMENT EVENTS; SATELLITE-BASED PASSIVE MICROWAVE;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATOLOGY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; POLYNYA; PREDICTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

ANTARCTICA; COSMONAUT POLYNYA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 34548051358     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027910     Document Type: Article

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