An examination of snow redistribution over smooth land-fast sea ice

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 850-865

  Iacozza, J ^a   Barber, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ARCTIC; Meteorological forcing; Sea ice; Snow depth; Snow redistribution

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC; CLIMATE DATA; FIRST-YEAR SEA ICES; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; INFILLING; LAND-FAST; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MICRO-SCALES; MODEL OUTPUTS; SEA ICE MODELS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA ICE; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ICE PROBLEMS;

CLIMATE FORCING; GEOSTATISTICS; MODELING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA ICE; SNOW; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 77951664293     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7526     Document Type: Article

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