Changes to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago sea ice and freshwater fluxes in the twenty-first century under the intergovernmental panel on climate change A1B climate scenario

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 331-350

  Hu, Xianmin ^a   Myers, Paul G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; climate change; freshwater fluxes; modelling; sea ice

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FRESHWATER; ICE COVER; SEA ICE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTHWEST PASSAGE; NUNAVUT; PARRY CHANNEL;

EID: 84908503217     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07055900.2014.942592     Document Type: Article

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