The Pacific zonal asymmetry and its influence on Southern Hemisphere sea ice variability

Antarctic Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 559-571

  Hobbs, W R ^a   Raphael, M N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; ocean atmosphere interaction; polar change; sea ice; zonal waves

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; ICE COVER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA ICE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WIND VELOCITY;

DRAKE PASSAGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77958461429     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102010000283     Document Type: Article

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