Estimating late-winter heat flow to the atmosphere from the lake-dominated Alaskan North Slope

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 45, Issue 150, 1999, Pages 315-324

  Jeffries, Martin O ^a   Zhang, Tingjun ^b   Frey, Karoline ^c   Kozlenko, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; HEAT FLUX; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032735671     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/s0022143000001817     Document Type: Article

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