Increased Arctic sea ice volume after anomalously low melting in 2013

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 643-646

  Tilling, Rachel L ^a   Ridout, Andy ^a   Shepherd, Andrew ^a,b   Wingham, Duncan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CRYOSAT; HEAT BUDGET; MELTING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA ICE; VOLUME;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND;

EID: 84938578968     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2489     Document Type: Article

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