A note on the roughness length for temperature over melting snow and ice

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 127, Issue 571, 2001, Pages 255-260

  Calanca, P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Melting snow and ice; Roughness length; Stable stratification; Temperature defect

Indexed keywords

ICE; MELTING; ROUGHNESS; SNOW; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035070754     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.57113     Document Type: Article

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