East antarctic landfast sea ice distribution and variability, 2000-08

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1137-1156

  Fraser, Alexander D ^a   Massom, Robert A ^b,c   Michael, Kelvin J ^a   Galton Fenzi, Benjamin K ^b   Lieser, Jan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Climatology; Interannual variability; Satellite observations; Sea ice; Time series

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC COASTS; ANTARCTICA; COMPOSITE IMAGES; ICE REGIME; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND-FAST; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA ICE DISTRIBUTION; SEA ICE EXTENT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES;

SEA ICE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; TIME SERIES;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84857084560     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-10-05032.1     Document Type: Article

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