Simulated Antarctic precipitation and surface mass balance at the end of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 215-230

  Krinner, G ^a   Magand, O ^a   Simmonds, I ^b   Genthon, C ^a   Dufresne, J L ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MASS BALANCE; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SIMULATION; SNOWMELT; SURFACE FLUX;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 33845394219     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-006-0177-x     Document Type: Article

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