Swell and sea in the emerging Arctic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3136-3140

  Thomson, Jim ^a   Rogers, W Erick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; sea ice; waves

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVES;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; NUMERICAL WAVE MODELING; OCEAN SURFACE WAVES; SEA ICE RETREATS; WAVE EVOLUTION; WINDS BLOWING;

WATER WAVES;

FETCH; ICE BREAKUP; ICE COVER; ICE RETREAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SURFACE WAVE; SWELL; WAVE ENERGY; WIND FORCING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA;

EID: 84901937160     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059983     Document Type: Article

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