Improved modeling of permafrost dynamics in a GCM land-surface scheme

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Nicolsky, D J ^a   Romanovsky, V E ^a   Alexeev, V A ^a   Lawrence, D M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE;

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; SOIL DEPTH;

PERMAFROST;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PERMAFROST; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34250746339     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029525     Document Type: Article

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