Recent changes in Arctic sea ice melt onset, freezeup, and melt season length

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Markus, Thorsten ^a   Stroeve, Julienne C ^b   Miller, Jeffrey ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC SEA ICE; BERING SEA; DATA SETS; FREEZE-UP; GREENLAND SEA; HUDSON BAY; SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

SEA ICE;

FREEZING; MELTING; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 77949350046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005436     Document Type: Article

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