27. Record low northern hemisphere sea ice extent in March 2015

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2016, Pages S136-S140

  Fučkar, Neven S ^a   Massonnet, François ^a   Guemas, Virginie ^a   García Serrano, Javier ^a   Bellprat, Omar ^a   Doblas Reyes, Francisco J ^a,b   Acosta, Mario ^a  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

INTERANNUAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PACIFIC SECTOR; SEA ICE EXTENT; SURFACE ANOMALIES; WINTER SEA ICES;

SEA ICE;

EID: 85011655242     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0153.1     Document Type: Article

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