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The Arctic and Polar cells act on the Arctic sea ice variation Cover

The Arctic and Polar cells act on the Arctic sea ice variation

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Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v67.27692 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 27692 - 27692
Submitted on: Feb 23, 2015
Accepted on: Jul 1, 2015
Published on: Dec 1, 2015
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Arctic,
Polar cell,
Arctic cell,
sea ice minimum,
stream function

© 2015 Weihong Qian, Kaijun Wu, Deliang Chen, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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