Divergent long-term trajectories of human access to the Arctic

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 156-160

  Stephenson, Scott R ^a   Smith, Laurence C ^a   Agnew, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FROZEN GROUND; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HYDROGRAPHY; ICE THICKNESS; LAND COVER; LATITUDE; LOW TEMPERATURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SHIPPING; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GREENLAND; NORTHWEST PASSAGE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960273146     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1120     Document Type: Article

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