Changes in Arctic sea ice result in increasing light transmittance and absorption

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Nicolaus, M ^a   Katlein, C ^a   Maslanik, J ^b   Hendricks, S ^a  

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

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; DATA SETS; FIRST-YEAR; GEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT TRANSMITTANCE; MASS BALANCE; SPECTRAL RADIOMETERS; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET; UPPER OCEAN;

SEA ICE;

ABSORPTION; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; LIGHT EFFECT; MASS BALANCE; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SEA ICE; TRANSMITTANCE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84871767888     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053738     Document Type: Article

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