Potential regime shift in decreased sea ice production after the Mertz Glacier calving

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tamura, T ^a,b   Williams, G D ^b   Fraser, A D ^b   Ohshima, K I ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAY; GLACIER; ICEBERG; METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84867340406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1820     Document Type: Article

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