The Arctic's rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: A research synthesis

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 1005-1027

  Stroeve, Julienne C ^a   Serreze, Mark C ^a   Holland, Marika M ^b   Kay, Jennifer E ^b,c   Malanik, James ^d   Barrett, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^d UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EXTERNAL FORCING; FIRST-YEAR; ICE COVER; OPEN WATER; SEA ICE EXTENT; SEA-ICE COVER; SPRING-IN;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

SEA ICE;

ACCELERATION; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ICE COVER; MELTING; OPEN WATER; RESEARCH WORK; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY; VULNERABILITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84856214559     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0101-1     Document Type: Article

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