Impact of snow drift on the antarctic ice sheet surface mass balance: Possible sensitivity to snow-surface properties

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-19

  Gallée, Hubert ^a   Guyomarc’h, Gilbert ^b   Brun, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Blowing snow; Katabatic winds; Mesoscale modelling

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EROSION; STABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

MESOSCALE ATMOSPHERIC NUMERICAL MODEL;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BLOWING SNOW; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; KATABATIC FLOW; SNOWPACK;

EID: 0035313111     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018776422809     Document Type: Article

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