Predictability of Arctic sea ice on weather time scales

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Mohammadi Aragh, M ^a,c   Goessling, H F ^a   Losch, M ^a   Hutter, N ^a   Jung, T ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BEHAVIOR; SEA ICE; SIMULATION; THICKNESS; UNCERTAINTY; WEATHER;

EID: 85045973147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-24660-0     Document Type: Article

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