Use of atmospheric radiation measurement program data from Barrow, Alaska, for evaluation and development of snow-albedo parameterizations

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 199-219

  Moders N ^a   Luijting, H ^b   Sassen, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

ALASKA; BARROW; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43049098553     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-007-0271-6     Document Type: Article

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