Glacier changes and regional climate: A mass and energy balance approach

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 5384-5401

  Rupper, Summer ^a   Roe, Gerard ^b  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ATMOSPHERICS; ENERGY BALANCE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; SUBLIMATION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

ABLATION PROCESSES; AIR TEMPERATURES; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CENTRAL ASIA; CLIMATE REGIMES; GLACIER CHANGES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITIES; MASS AND ENERGY BALANCES; MASS BALANCES; PROPORTIONALITY FACTORS; RADIATIVE FLUXES; REGIONAL CLIMATES; REGIONAL SCALES; SEASONAL CYCLES; SHORT WAVES; SURFACE ENERGIES; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCES; SURFACE RUNOFFS;

GLACIERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SUBLIMATION;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 56349154992     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2219.1     Document Type: Article

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