Effects of lead structure in Bering Sea pack ice on the flight costs of wintering spectacled eiders

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 113-139

  Bump, Joseph K ^a   Lovvorn, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Flight energetics; Ice lead dynamics; Sea ice; Spectacled eider; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THERMODYNAMICS; WIND;

EIDERS; LEAD DYNAMICS; LEAD STRUCTURE; WIND SPEED;

LEAD;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; HABITAT; OVERWINTERING; PACK ICE; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATERFOWL;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AVES; MAMMALIA; SOMATERIA; SOMATERIA FISCHERI;

EID: 5144224881     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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