Modelling albedo and distributed snowmelt across a low hill in Svalbard

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 207-218

  Essery, Richard ^a   Blyth, Eleanor ^b   Harding, Richard ^b   Lloyd, Colin ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Snow albedo; Snow modelling; Snowcover; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

LAND-SURFACE MODEL; MASS BALANCE CALCULATIONS; SNOW MASS SIMULATIONS; SNOWCOVERS;

SNOW;

ALBEDO; SNOWMELT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WORLD;

EID: 23044466146     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2005.0015     Document Type: Article

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