Recent changes in Antarctic Sea Ice

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 2045, 2015, Pages

  Turner, John ^a   Hosking, J Scott ^a   Bracegirdle, Thomas J ^a   Marshall, Gareth J ^a   Phillips, Tony ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cryosphere; Sea ice; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINE WATER; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS;

COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; CRYOSPHERE; CURRENT GENERATION; INTRINSIC VARIABILITIES; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; REGIONAL VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ICE;

EID: 84930972990     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0163     Document Type: Review

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