Insignificant change in Antarctic snowmelt volume since 1979

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kuipers Munneke, P ^a   Picard, G ^b   Van Den Broeke, M R ^a   Lenaerts, J T M ^a   Van Meijgaard, E ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIERS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; FLOATING ICE; ICE SHEET; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MELT VOLUME; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SNOWMELT;

ICE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE SENSOR; SNOWMELT;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84855884089     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050207     Document Type: Article

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