Thickness distribution of Antarctic sea ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Worby, Anthony P ^e   Geiger, Cathleen A ^c   Paget, Matthew J ^d   Van Woert, Michael L ^a   Ackley, Stephen F ^b   DeLiberty, Tracy L ^c  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; SEA ICE; SNOW; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; THICKNESS CONTROL;

ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; ANTARCTICA; BEST ESTIMATES; CONTINUOUS MAP; DATA SETS; ICE MASS; ICE THICKNESS; LEVEL ICE; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SEASONAL CHANGES; SNOW COVERS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ICE THICKNESS; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 42549133815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004254     Document Type: Article

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