Mapping the future expansion of Arctic open water

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 280-285

  Barnhart, Katherine R ^a,b   Miller, Christopher R ^c   Overeem, Irina ^a   Kay, Jennifer E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL EROSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPANSION; ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OPEN WATER; SEA ICE; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; WARMING;

ARCTIC; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84959271449     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2848     Document Type: Article

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