An empirical formulation of soil ice fraction based on in situ observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Decker, Mark ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SOILS;

REALISTIC FORMULATION; SOIL ICE FRACTION; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33646380345     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024914     Document Type: Article

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