Glacial shortcut of Arctic sea-ice transport

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 357-358, Issue , 2012, Pages 257-267

  Stärz, Michael ^a,b   Gong, Xun ^a   Stein, Rüdiger ^a   Darby, Dennis A ^c   Kauker, Frank ^a   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; CLIMAP; GLAMAP; Last Glacial Maximum; NAOSIM; Regional ocean sea ice model

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; CLIMAP; GLAMAP; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NAOSIM;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYOSPHERE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; ICE DRIFT; ICE THICKNESS; ICEBERG; IRON OXIDE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT;

EID: 84867632673     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.09.033     Document Type: Article

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