Uncertainties in gridded air temperature fields and effects on predictive active layer modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Anisimov, Oleg A ^a   Lobanov, Vladimir A ^a   Reneva, Svetlana A ^a   Shiklomanov, Nikolay I ^b   Zhang, Tingjun ^c   Nelson, Frederick E ^b  

^a STATE HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELING; PERMAFROST; THAWING;

EURASIA;

EID: 34548317309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000593     Document Type: Article

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