Impact of Greenland's topographic height on precipitation and snow accumulation in idealized simulations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Hakuba, M Z ^a   Folini, D ^a   Wild, M ^a   Schr, C ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CONTROL SIMULATION; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICELANDICS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

TOPOGRAPHY;

ABLATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW ACCUMULATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84861325746     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD017052     Document Type: Article

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