Modeling the impact of wintertime rain events on the thermal regime of permafrost

Cryosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 945-959

  Westermann, S ^a   Boike, J ^b   Langer, M ^b   Schuler, T V ^a   Etzelmuller B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND FREEZING; INFILTRATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINWATER; SNOW COVER; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL REGIME; WINTER;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 80055080381     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-5-945-2011     Document Type: Article

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