Precipitation and temperature estimation error at alpine treeline ecotones using the mountain climate simulator model (MT-CLIM)

Physical Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 285-307

  Grafius, Darren ^a   Malanson, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Extrapolation; Modeling; Mountain; MT CLIM; Snow; Treeline

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ECOTONE; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW; TOPOGRAPHY; TREELINE;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70450273164     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.30.4.285     Document Type: Article

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