When will the summer Arctic be nearly sea ice free?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2097-2101

  Overland, James E ^a   Wang, Muyin ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LOSS ESTIMATES; MODEL ESTIMATES; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE COVER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA ICE; SUMMER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VOLUME;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84879924442     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50316     Document Type: Article

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