Modeling arctic snow distribution and melt at the 1 km grid scale

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 35, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 295-307

  Woo, Ming Ko ^a   Young, Kathy L ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depletion curve; Energy balance; High Arctic; Snow cover; Snow modelling; Sub grid parameterization

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; METEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ARCTIC SNOW DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY BALANCE; SNOW COVER; SNOW PATTERNS;

SNOW;

ENERGY BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

EID: 10844226996     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2004.0022     Document Type: Article

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