Snow and Sea Ice

Sea Ice: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 153-204

  Sturm, Matthew ^a   Massom, Robert A ^b  

^a USA CRREL Alaska ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic Arctic snow depth comparison being very misleading; Intimate and complex relationship between snow and sea ice; Metamorphic pathways; Retention of thick snow in perennial ice regions, western Weddell Sea and eastern Ross Sea; Sea ice snow cover; Snow and sea ice; Snow metamorphism; Snow water equivalent (SWE) and ocean freshwater budget; Temporal evolution of snow packs; West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) sector exceptions to such patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956425073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317145.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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