Significance of snowpack for root-zone water and temperature cycles in subarctic lapland

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 373-380

  Sutinen, Raimo ^a,b,c   Vajda, Andrea ^a   Hänninen, Pekka ^b   Sutinen, Marja Liisa ^c  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CYCLE; GROWTH RATE; INFILTRATION; RHIZOSPHERE; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUBARCTIC REGION; WATER CONTENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

BETULA PUBESCENS;

EID: 69149107656     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-41.3.373     Document Type: Article

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