Arctic sea-ice change: A grand challenge of climate science

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 56, Issue 200, 2011, Pages 1115-1121

  Kattsov, Vladimir M ^a   Ryabinin, Vladimir E ^b   Overland, James E ^c   Serreze, Mark C ^d   Visbeck, Martin ^e   Walsh, John E ^f   Meier, Walt ^d   Zhang, Xiangdong ^f  

^a VOEIKOV MAIN GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

^b WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 80052250734     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/002214311796406176     Document Type: Article

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