Arctic sea ice in the global eddy-permitting ocean reanalysis ORAP5

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 775-789

  Tietsche, Steffen ^a,b   Balmaseda, Magdalena A ^b   Zuo, Hao ^b   Mogensen, Kristian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; Ocean reanalysis; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; EDDY; ICE THICKNESS; ICESAT; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84930362441     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2673-3     Document Type: Article

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