Improving simulated soil temperatures and soil freeze/thaw at high-latitude regions in the Simple Biosphere/CarnegieAmes-Stanford Approach model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Schaefer, Kevin ^a   Zhang, Tingjun ^a   Slater, Andrew G ^a   Lu, Lixin ^a,b   Etringer, Andrew ^a   Baker, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; HOAR FROST; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; SNOWPACK; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TUNDRA;

EID: 77954345943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JF001125     Document Type: Article

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