Loss of sea ice during winter north of Svalbard

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Onarheim, Ingrid H ^a,b   Smedsrud, Lars H ^a,b,c   Ingvaldsen, Randi B ^d   Nilsen, Frank ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Air ice sea interactions; Atlantic water; Heat transport; Sea ice; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEAT TRANSFER; SEA ICE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WARMING; WIND; WINTER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84904559484     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v66.23933     Document Type: Article

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