Late-summer pack ice in the Canadian archipelago: Thickness observations from a ship in transit

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-70

  Dumas, Jacqueline A ^a   Melling, Humfrey ^b   Flato, Gregory M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HISTOGRAM; ICE THICKNESS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPEN WATER; PACK ICE;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 85039219851     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/ao.v450105     Document Type: Article

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