Recent and future changes of the Arctic sea-ice cover

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Smedsrud, Lars H ^a   Sorteberg, Asgeir ^a   Kloster, Kjell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; FLUXES; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; TURBULENT FLOW;

A STABLES; ARCTIC ICES; ARCTIC SEA ICES; ARCTIC SEAS; ATLANTIC; ENERGY FLUXES; FRAM STRAITS; ICE COVERS; ICE MODELS; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORTS; OCEAN HEATS; OCEANIC HEAT FLUXES; OPEN OCEANS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

ICE;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; HEAT FLUX; ICE COVER; MODELING; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT;

EID: 58249090988     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034813     Document Type: Article

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