Turbulence observations above a smooth melting surface on the Greenland ice sheet

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-110

  Meesters, A G C A ^a   Bink, N J ^a   Vugts, H F ^a   Cannemeijer, F ^a   Henneken, E A C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Polar meteorology; Radiation absorption; Roughness length for temperature; Snow and ice surfaces

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; POLAR; TURBULENCE;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0031391192     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000463626745     Document Type: Article

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