The role of winter sublimation in the Arctic moisture budget

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 35, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 325-334

  Liston, G E ^a   Sturm, M ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Precipitation under catch; Snow water equivalents; Snow drift; Sublimation

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SNOW; WIND EFFECTS;

ARCTIC SUBLIMATION; SURFACE MOISTURE BUDGET; WINTER SUBLIMATION;

HYDROLOGY;

HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SUBLIMATION; WATER BUDGET;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

EID: 11244296698     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2004.0024     Document Type: Review

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