Sea ice conditions and melt season duration variability within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: 1979-2008

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Howell, Stephen E L ^a   Duguay, Claude R ^a   Markus, Thorsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO; NORTHWEST PASSAGE; SEA ICE CONDITIONS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; SEA ICE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARCHIPELAGO; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; MELT; MELTING; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 67651097496     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037681     Document Type: Article

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