Regional-scale modeling of soil freeze/thaw over the Arctic drainage basin

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Oelke, Christoph ^a   Zhang, Tingjun ^a   Serreze, Mark C ^a   Armstrong, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Active layer; Arctic climatology; CALM; Frozen ground; Temperature topography correction; Thaw depth

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; FROZEN GROUND; MODELING; SOIL WATER;

EID: 1642463475     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd002722     Document Type: Article

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