Evolution of the 2007-2008 Arctic sea ice cover and prospects for a new record in 2008

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Drobot, Sheldon ^a   Stroeve, Julienne ^b   Maslanik, James ^a   Emery, William ^a   Fowler, Charles ^a   Kay, Jennifer ^c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; LINEAR REGRESSION; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC ICES; ARCTIC OCEANS; ARCTIC SEA ICES; ICE COVERS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; RAPID TRANSITIONS; SEA ICE EXTENTS; SURVIVAL RATES; TIPPING POINTS;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; FLOATING ICE; ICE COVER; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA ICE; TEMPORAL RECORD;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 57749169915     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035316     Document Type: Article

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