Ice sheet inception: Subgrid hypsometric parameterization of mass balance in an ice sheet model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 533-550

  Marshall, S J ^a   Clarke, G K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0032722689     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050298     Document Type: Article

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