A five-year record of summer melt on Eurasian Arctic Ice Caps

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 133-145

  Sharp, Martin ^a   Wang, Libo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEAWATER;

850-HPA; AIR TEMPERATURES; ANNUAL MEANS; ANOMALY PATTERNS; ARCTIC ICES; BACKSCATTER DATUM; CANADIAN ARCTIC; DISCRETE REGIONS; FREEZE-UP; GREENLAND; MELT DURATIONS; NORTH COASTS; QUIKSCAT; RE-ANALYSIS; SCATTEROMETER; SEA ICE CONCENTRATIONS; SVALBARD;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; ICE CAP; MELTING; NOAA SATELLITE; QUIKSCAT; TEMPORAL RECORD;

ARCTIC; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; EURASIA; GREENLAND; NORTH AMERICA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 60749134428     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2425.1     Document Type: Article

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