Equivalent elevation: A new method to incorporate variable surface lapse rates into mountain permafrost modelling

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-162

  Lewkowicz, Antoni G ^a   Bonnaventure, Philip P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air temperature inversions; Equivalent elevation; Mountain permafrost; Permafrost modelling; Surface lapse rates

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ELEVATION; MODELING; MOUNTAIN REGION; PERMAFROST; TREELINE;

CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 79958820922     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.720     Document Type: Article

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