Autonomous observations of solar energy partitioning in first-year sea ice in the Arctic Basin

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2066-2080

  Wang, Caixin ^a   Granskog, Mats A ^a   Gerland, Sebastian ^a   Hudson, Stephen R ^a   Perovich, Donald K ^b   Nicolaus, Marcel ^c   Ivan Karlsen, Tor ^a   Fossan, Kristen ^a   Bratrein, Marius ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

autonomous observation; high Arctic; sea ice; solar energy partition

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; LAKES; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

ADDITIONAL HEATING; AUTONOMOUS OBSERVATION; ENERGY PARTITION; ENERGY PARTITIONING; FIRST-YEAR SEA ICES; HIGH ARCTIC; SPECTRAL RADIATION; SURFACE ALBEDO;

SEA ICE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEATING; MASS BALANCE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA ICE; SNOWMELT; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT;

EID: 84900363106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009459     Document Type: Article

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