Recent mechanical weakening of the Arctic sea ice cover as revealed from larger inertial oscillations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Gimbert, F ^a,b   Jourdain, N C ^c   Marsan, D ^a   Weiss, J ^b   Barnier, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC SEA ICE; CORIOLIS; DYNAMICAL MODEL; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; ICE COVER; ICE MASS; INERTIAL MOTIONS; INERTIAL OSCILLATION; INERTIAL RANGES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; OCEAN BOUNDARIES; PER UNIT; SEA-ICE COVER;

SEA ICE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CORIOLIS FORCE; DEFORMATION; FRACTURE INITIATION; FRICTION; ICE COVER; ICE MECHANICS; ICE MOVEMENT; ICE THICKNESS; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861447661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007633     Document Type: Article

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