Change and Variability in East Antarctic Sea Ice Seasonality, 1979/80-2009/10

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Massom, Robert ^a,b   Reid, Philip ^c   Stammerjohn, Sharon ^d   Raymond, Ben ^a,b   Fraser, Alexander ^b   Ushio, Shuki ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MELTING POINT; SEA ICE; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ICE COVER; SEASONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84877987291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064756     Document Type: Article

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