Examining Glacier mass balances with a hierarchical modeling approach

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 60-67

  Bhatt, Uma S ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Lingle, Craig S ^a   Phillips, Lisa M ^a   Tangborn, Wendell V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b HyMet ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEMS MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL (GCM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GLACIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 33847695778     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2007.29     Document Type: Review

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