Adjoint analysis of the 2007 all time Arctic sea-ice minimum

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Kauker, F ^a,b,d   Kaminski, T ^c   Karcher, M ^a,b,d   Giering, R ^c   Gerdes, R ^b   Vossbeck M ^c  

^a OASys   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c FastOpt GmbH   (Germany)

^d OASys GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT; ARCTIC SEA ICES; AREA REDUCTIONS; EARLY PREDICTIONS; EVENT-BASED; HIGH POTENTIALS; ICE THICKNESS; INFLUENCE FACTORS; LONG-TERM TRENDS; NEW APPROACHES; OCEAN-SEA ICES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WIND CONDITIONS; ADJOINTS; ARCTIC; AREA REDUCTION; EARLY PREDICTION; HIGH POTENTIAL; LONG-TERM TREND;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; SEA ICE; SEAWATER;

OCEANOGRAPHY; ICE;

ADJOINT METHOD; ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 65249124140     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036323     Document Type: Article

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