Late-summer sea ice thickness variability in the Arctic Transpolar Drift 1991-2001 derived from ground-based electromagnetic sounding

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Haas, Christian ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRILLING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; RADAR; SATELLITES; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARCTIC REGION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SOUNDING; TRANSPOLAR DRIFT;

SEA ICE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; ICE THICKNESS; SEA ICE; SUMMER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 3543128350     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019394     Document Type: Article

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