Boreal forests and snow in climate models

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 10-11, 1998, Pages 1561-1567

  Essery, Richard ^a  

^a Hadley Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM);

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; VEGETATION;

HYDROLOGY;

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; SNOW COVER;

EID: 0032147717     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199808/09)12:10/11<1561::AID-HYP681>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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