An empirical formula to compute snow cover fraction in GCMs

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 529-535

  Wu, Tongwen ^a,b   Wu, Guoxiong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

GCM; Satellite derived snow depth; Snow cover fraction parameterization

Indexed keywords

EID: 4143074611     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02915720     Document Type: Article

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