Arctic sea ice and freshwater sensitivity to the treatment of the atmosphere-ice-ocean surface layer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 4392-4417

  Roy, François ^a   Chevallier, Matthieu ^b   Smith, Gregory C ^a   Dupont, Frédéric ^a   Garric, Gilles ^c   Lemieux, Jean François ^a   Lu, Youyu ^d   Davidson, Fraser ^e  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^d FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^e NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

air sea interactions; Arctic Ocean; freshwater budget; ice thickness; ice ocean drag; ice ocean modeling

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE EFFECT; DRAG; EKMAN TRANSPORT; ICE DRIFT; ICE THICKNESS; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SURFACE LAYER; WATER BUDGET;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA;

EID: 85027924652     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010677     Document Type: Article

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