Fram Strait sea ice volume export estimated between 2003 and 2008 from satellite data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Spreen, Gunnar ^a,b   Kern, Stefan ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a   Hansen, Edmond ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAM STRAIT; ICE THICKNESS; LASER ALTIMETER; NATURAL VARIABILITY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA-ICE THICKNESS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SATELLITES;

SEA ICE;

ICE DRIFT; ICE THICKNESS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ARCTIC; FRAM STRAIT;

EID: 72049101442     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039591     Document Type: Article

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