Winter sea-ice melt in the Canada Basin, Arctic ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Jackson, Jennifer M ^a,b   Williams, William J ^c   Carmack, Eddy C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CANADA BASIN; ICE MASS; NCEP/NCAR; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; REANALYSIS; STORM EVENTS; SURFACE FORCING; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS; ICE MELTS; WINTER STORMS;

BUOYS;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HALOCLINE; MELTING; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WINTER; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ENTRAINMENT; HEAT TRANSFER; MELT; MIXED LAYER; STORM; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA BASIN;

EID: 84857345878     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050219     Document Type: Article

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