Problems in the determination of sensible heat flux over snow

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 157-169

  Arck, Martin ^a   Scherer, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ESTIMATION METHOD; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SNOWPACK;

ABISKO MOUNTAINS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036967495     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.2002.00170.x     Document Type: Article

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