Arctic sea ice thickness characteristics in winter 2004 and 2007 from submarine sonar transects

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Wadhams, Peter ^a,b   Hughes, Nick ^c   Rodrigues, Joo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c Norwegian Ice Service   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA ICE; SONAR; SURVEYS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; FRAM STRAIT; ICE COVER; PRESSURE RIDGE;

SUBMARINES;

ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA ICE; SONAR; SUBMARINE; TRANSECT; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; WINTER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; FRAM STRAIT; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

EID: 80053315487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC006982     Document Type: Article

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