Sea-ice thickness from field measurements in the northwestern Barents Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1497-1512

  King, Jennifer ^a   Spreen, Gunnar ^a,b   Gerland, Sebastian ^a   Haas, Christian ^b,c,d   Hendricks, Stefan ^d   Kaleschke, Lars ^e   Wang, Caixin ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; sea ice; thickness measurements

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; FIELD METHOD; ICE COVER; ICE DRIFT; ICE THICKNESS; INFLOW; LONG RANGE FORECAST; SEA ICE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 85014094571     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JC012199     Document Type: Article

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