Snowpack Characteristics of Vestfonna and de Geerfonna (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard) - A Spatiotemporal Analysis Based on Multiyear Snow-Pit Data

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 273-285

  Möller, Marco ^a   Möller, Rebecca ^a   Beaudon, Émilie ^b   Mattila, Olli Pekka ^c   Finkelnburg, Roman ^d   Braun, Matthias ^e,f   Grabiec, Mariusz ^g   Jonsell, Ulf ^h   Luks, Bartlomiej ⁱ   Puczko, Dariusz ⁱ   Scherer, Dieter ^d   Schneider, Christoph ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^h UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Snow cover; Snow profiles; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

GLACIOLOGY; HARDNESS; ICE CAP; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; NORDAUSTLANDET; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 83055169888     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2011.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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