Estimating mass balance components of the Greenland ice sheet from a long-term GCM simulation

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-32

  Smith, Ian ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

GCM; Greenland; Mass balance; Sea level

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE SHEET; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032939404     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(98)00060-5     Document Type: Article

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