Remote sensing of snowline rise as an aid to testing and calibrating a glacier runoff model

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 279-283

  Turpin, O C ^a   Ferguson, R I ^b   Clark, C D ^a  

^a Sheffield Ctr Earth Observ Sci   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE; GLACIER; MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SNOWLINE RISE; SNOWMELT;

EID: 0031460181     PISSN: 00791946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-1946(97)00144-4     Document Type: Article

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