Climate downscaling for estimating glacier mass balances in northwestern North America: Validation with a USGS benchmark glacier

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Bhatt, Uma S ^a   Tangborn, Wendell V ^b   Lingle, Craig S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b HyMet Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; MASS BALANCE;

GLACIERS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HINDCASTING;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38549166754     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031139     Document Type: Article

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