Estimating canopy snow unloading timescales from daily observations of albedo and precipitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  MacKay, Murray D ^a   Bartlett, Paul A ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SNOW;

INVERSE TRANSFORMS; LAPLACE CONVOLUTION THEOREM; WINTER SEASON;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALBEDO; BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW COVER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 34047227859     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027521     Document Type: Article

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