Sudden increase in Antarctic sea ice: Fact or artifact?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Screen, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE SENSORS; SEA ICE;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM; ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; CLIMATE RESEARCH; DATA SETS; SATELLITE SENSORS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SOURCE DATA; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; ARTIFACT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DISCONTINUITY; SEA ICE; SSM-I;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC;

EID: 79959954402     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047553     Document Type: Article

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