New Trans-Arctic shipping routes navigable by midcentury

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Smith, Laurence C ^a   Stephenson, Scott R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic maritime development; Climate change; Global change; Human environment; Marine transportation modeling

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBAL CHANGE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIATIVE FORCING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHIP; SHIPPING; SIMULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WINTER;

EID: 84875526163     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214212110     Document Type: Article

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