The refreezing of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 647-659

  Flocco, Daniela ^a   Feltham, Daniel L ^a   Bailey, Eleanor ^b   Schroeder, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Memorial University of Newfoundland   (Canada)

Author keywords

global climate model; refreezing melt ponds; sea ice

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; FREEZING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; POND; RADIATIVE FORCING; SCATTERING; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 85027931222     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010140     Document Type: Article

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