West Antarctic Peninsula sea ice in 2005: Extreme ice compaction and ice edge retreat due to strong anomaly with respect to climate

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Massom, Robert A ^a   Stammerjohn, Sharon E ^b   Lefebvre, Wouter ^c   Harangozo, Stephen A ^d   Adams, Neil ^e   Scambos, Theodore A ^f   Pook, Michael J ^g   Fowler, Charles ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

^h UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA ICE;

ICE MARGIN; ICE RETREAT; ICE THICKNESS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

AMUNDSEN SEA; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 42549091467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004239     Document Type: Article

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