Articles | Volume 8, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-705-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-705-2014
Research article
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22 Apr 2014
Research article |  | 22 Apr 2014

Uncertainties in Arctic sea ice thickness and volume: new estimates and implications for trends

M. Zygmuntowska, P. Rampal, N. Ivanova, and L. H. Smedsrud

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