Strong temperature increase and shrinking sea ice in Arctic Alaska

Open Atmospheric Science Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-15

  Wendler, Gerd ^a   Moore, Blake ^a   Galloway, Kevin ^a  

^a Geophysical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Arctic Ocean; Climate change

Indexed keywords

MARGINAL SEA; OPEN WATER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SHRINKAGE; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CHUKCHI SEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928742819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874282301408010007     Document Type: Article

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