Impact of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice simulations from 1990 to 2007

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Flocco, Daniela ^a   Schroeder, David ^a   Feltham, Daniel L ^a   Hunke, Elizabeth C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; LAKES; MELTING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC ICE; ARCTIC SEA ICE; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE CONCENTRATION; ICE COVER; ICE FORECASTS; ICE VOLUMES; MASS BALANCE; MELT PONDS; SEA ICE CONDITIONS; SEA ICE EXTENT; SEA ICE MODELS; SEA-ICE COMPONENTS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SURFACE ALBEDO;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATE MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84867266716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008195     Document Type: Article

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