Sea ice thickness measurements from a community-based observing network

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 370-377

  Mahoney, A ^a,d   Gearheard, S ^a,b   Oshima, T ^c   Qillaq, T ^b  

^a National Snow and Ice Data Center   (United States)

^b Community of Clyde River ^*  (Canada)

^c Community of Qaanaaq ^*  (Greenland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC SEA ICES; DATA COLLECTIONS; DECISION MAKERS; GLOBAL CHANGES; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GREENLAND; KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGES; LOCAL FIELDS; LOCAL SCALE; OCEAN HEATS; SATELLITE DATUM;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; SEA ICE; SEAWATER; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 65549121307     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2696.1     Document Type: Article

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