Snow modelling in the Hadley Centre GCM

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 655-659

  Essery, Richard ^a  

^a Hadley Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODELING; SNOW;

EID: 0032459277     PISSN: 00791946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-1946(98)00106-2     Document Type: Article

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