On the glaciological, meteorological, and climatological significance of Antarctic blue ice areas

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 337-359

  Bintanja, Richard ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE; ICE SHEET;

ANTARCTICA;

AERODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; SNOW;

AIR FLOW; ANTARCTIC CLIMATE; IMPORTANT FEATURES; LOW ALBEDO; NATURAL SURFACE; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SMOOTH SURFACE; SURFACE AREA;

ICE;

EID: 0033428690     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RG900007     Document Type: Article

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