A spreadsheet-based (microsoft excel) point surface energy balance model for glacier and snow melt studies

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 649-658

  Brock, Ben W ^a,b   Arnold, Neil S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpine glaciers; Energy balance models; Glacier ablation; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIOLOGY; SNOWMELT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0033937383     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9837(200006)25:6<649::AID-ESP97>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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