Snowmelt on the Greenland ice sheet as derived from passive microwave satellite data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-175

  Abdalati, Waleed ^a,b   Steffen, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; MICROWAVE SENSING; REGIONAL WEATHER PATTERN; SNOWMELT; SSM/I; TEMPERATURE; XPGR;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0031420527     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0165:SOTGIS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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