Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1753-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1753-2013
Research article
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15 Nov 2013
Research article |  | 15 Nov 2013

Recent extreme light sea ice years in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: 2011 and 2012 eclipse 1998 and 2007

S. E. L. Howell, T. Wohlleben, A. Komarov, L. Pizzolato, and C. Derksen

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