Recent trends in Antarctic snow accumulation from Polar MM5 simulations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1844, 2006, Pages 1683-1708

  Monaghan, Andrew J ^a,b   Bromwich, David H ^a,b   Wang, Sheng Hung ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic accumulation; Antarctic precipitation; Ntarctic surface mass balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746306154     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1795     Document Type: Article

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