Estimation of the energy used to melt snow in the Tien Shan mountains and Japanese Islands

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 349-359

  Aizen, Vladimir ^a   Aizen, Elena ^a   Melack, John ^b   Nakamura, Tsutomu ^c   Kobayashi, Shunichi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Energy; Melting; Snow

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BUDGET; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; SNOWMELT;

CHINA; JAPAN;

EID: 0037198019     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00075-9     Document Type: Article

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