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Recent changes in winter Arctic clouds and their relationships with sea ice and atmospheric conditions Cover

Recent changes in winter Arctic clouds and their relationships with sea ice and atmospheric conditions

Tellus
Volume 68 (2016): Issue 1
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|Dec 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v68.29130 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 29130 - 29130
Submitted on: Jul 13, 2015
Accepted on: Feb 10, 2016
Published on: Dec 1, 2016
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Arctic cloud,
sea ice loss,
sea ice feedback,
cloud feedback,
cloud–moisture–temperature relationship

© 2016 Sang-Yoon Jun, Chang-Hoi Ho, Jee-Hoon Jeong, Yong-Sang Choi, Baek-Min Kim, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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