September Arctic sea-ice minimum predicted by spring melt-pond fraction

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 353-357

  Schröder, David ^a   Feltham, Daniel L ^a   Flocco, Daniela ^a   Tsamados, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; MELT; POND; SEA ICE; SPRING (SEASON); WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84899509337     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2203     Document Type: Article

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