A sea ice free summer Arctic within 30 years?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Muyin ^a,c   Overland, James E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC SEA ICE; EXPECTED VALUES; ICE LOSS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; NATURAL VARIABILITY; SEA ICE EXTENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA ICE; TIME MEASUREMENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; MELTING; SEA ICE; SUMMER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 67449126557     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037820     Document Type: Article

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