Modeled impacts of changes in tundra snow thickness on ground thermal regime and heat flow to the atmosphere in Northernmost Alaska

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 235-246

  Ling, Feng ^a   Zhang, Tingjun ^b  

^a ZHAOQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductive heat flow; Energy balance; Ground thermal regime; Modeling; Snow thickness

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT FLOW; MODELING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PERMAFROST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL REGIME; TUNDRA;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 34248512362     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.11.009     Document Type: Article

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