Wintertime high-altitude surface energy balance of a Bolivian glacier, Illimani, 6340 m above sea level

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Wagnon, Patrick ^a   Sicart, Jean Emmanuel ^b   Berthier, Etienne ^c   Chazarin, Jean Philippe ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c LEGOS   (France)

^d Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Ecuador   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Energy balance; High altitude; Net all wave radiation; Sublimation; Tropical glaciers; Turbulent fluxes

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIER; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX;

BOLIVIA; ILLIMANI; LA PAZ [BOLIVIA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0041894906     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd002088     Document Type: Article

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