Climatic mass balance of the ice cap Vestfonna, Svalbard: A spatially distributed assessment using ERA-Interim and MODIS data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Möller, Marco ^a   Finkelnburg, Roman ^b   Braun, Matthias ^c,d   Hock, Regine ^c,e   Jonsell, Ulf ^e,f,g   Pohjola, Veijo A ^e   Scherer, Dieter ^b   Schneider, Christoph ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^g Swedish Polar Research Secretariat ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DOWNSCALING; FREEZING; ICE CAP; MASS BALANCE; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARCTIC; NORDAUSTLANDET; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; VESTFONNA;

EID: 80052053296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JF001905     Document Type: Article

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