A new snow thermodynamic scheme for large-scale sea-ice models

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 52, Issue 57 PART 2, 2011, Pages 337-346

  Lecomte, Olivier ^a   Fichefet, Thierry ^a   Vancoppenolle, Martin ^a,c   Nicolaus, Marcel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE THICKNESS; MODEL VALIDATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SEA ICE; SNOW; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMODYNAMICS; THRESHOLD; CORRELATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ALASKA; POINT BARROW; SOUTHERN OCEAN; UNITED STATES; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 79958091510     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756411795931453     Document Type: Article

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