Small-scale horizontal variability of snow, sea-ice thickness and freeboard in the first-year ice region north of Svalbard

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 54, Issue 62, 2013, Pages 261-266

  Haapala, Jari ^a   Lensu, Mikko ^a   Dumont, Marie ^b,c   Renner, Angelika H H ^b   Granskog, Mats A ^b   Gerland, Sebastian ^b  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE THICKNESS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; SEA ICE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84881600234     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2013AoG62A157     Document Type: Article

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