Application of a distributed blowing snow model to the arctic

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1451-1464

  Pomeroy, J W ^a   Marsh, P ^a   Gray, D M ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Blowing snow; Evaporation; Hydrology; Precipitation; Snow distribution; Snow drifts; Snowfall; Sublimation; Tundra

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGY; SUBLIMATION; WIND;

ARCTIC REGION; BLOWING SNOW; DISTRIBUTED BLOWING MODELS; SNOW DISTRIBUTION; SNOW DRIFTS; TUNDRA;

SNOW;

EVAPORATION; PRECIPITATION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SNOW DISTRIBUTION; SUBLIMATION; WIND BLOWN SNOW;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0031227283     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(199709)11:11<1451::aid-hyp449>3.0.co;2-q     Document Type: Article

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