Spatial and temporal transferability of a distributed energy-balance glacier melt model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1480-1498

  MacDougall, Andrew H ^a   Flowers, Gwenn E ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Energy budget; Glaciers

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ENERGIES; ENERGY BUDGETS; EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL SKILL; PARAMETER VALUES; SNOW DEPTHS; SPACE AND TIME; SURFACE ABLATION;

ABLATION; BUDGET CONTROL; SEA LEVEL; SNOW;

GLACIERS;

ABLATION; ENERGY BUDGET; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIER; MELTING; MODELING;

CANADA; SAINT ELIAS MOUNTAINS; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 79955018171     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3821.1     Document Type: Article

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