Representing glaciers in a regional climate model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-46

  Kotlarski, Sven ^a,c   Jacob, Daniela ^a   Podzun, Ralf ^a   Paul, Frank ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glacier mass balance; Regional climate modeling; Subgrid parameterization; Volume area relation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; MASS BALANCE; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 72049102882     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0685-6     Document Type: Article

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