Energy budget of first-year Arctic sea ice in advanced stages of melt

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2679-2683

  Hudson, Stephen R ^a   Granskog, Mats A ^a   Sundfjord, Arild ^a   Randelhoff, Achim ^a   Renner, Angelika H H ^a   Divine, Dmitry V ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

energy budget; radiation; sea ice; turbulent heat fluxes

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION OF SOLAR RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC HEAT; ENERGY BUDGETS; FIRST-YEAR SEA ICES; OCEANIC HEAT FLUX; SOURCE OF ENERGY; SURFACE HEAT BUDGET OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES;

BUDGET CONTROL; HEAT RADIATION; LAKES; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

HEAT FLUX;

ABSORPTION; ALBEDO; ENERGY BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIAN BASIN; NANSEN BASIN;

EID: 84879977366     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50517     Document Type: Article

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