Variability of sea ice deformation rates in the Arctic and their relationship with basin-scale wind forcing

Cryosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1553-1559

  Herman, A ^a   Glowacki, O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ICE COVER; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84873689269     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-6-1553-2012     Document Type: Article

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