The impact of soil freezing/thawing processes on water and energy balances

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 169-177

  Zhang, Xia ^a   Sun, Shufen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

freezing thawing processes; frozen soil; surface flux; water and energy balances

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650653438     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-9206-0     Document Type: Article

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