Evaluating a high-resolution climate model: Simulated hydrothermal regimes in frozen ground regions and their change under the global warming scenario

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Saito, Kazuyuki ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^b   Zhang, Tingjun ^c   Takata, Kumiko ^a   Emori, Seita ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d National Institute of Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; FROZEN GROUND; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; PERMAFROST; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34548303956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000577     Document Type: Article

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