The role of surface energy fluxes in pan-Arctic snow cover changes

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Shi, Xiaogang ^a   Groisman, Pavel Ya ^b   Déry, Stephen J ^c   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

pan Arctic; recession; snow cover; surface energy fluxes

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053465499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/035204     Document Type: Article

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