Net accumulation of the Greenland ice sheet: High resolution modeling of climate changes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Kiilsholm, Sissi ^a   Christensen, Jens Hesselbjerg ^a   Dethloff, Klaus ^b   Rinke, Annette ^b  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE;

REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (RCM);

GEOPHYSICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0042239271     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015742     Document Type: Article

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