Sensitivity of a distributed temperature-radiation index melt model based on AWS observations and surface energy balance fluxes, Hurd Peninsula glaciers, Livingston Island, Antarctica

Cryosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 539-552

  Jonsell, U Y ^a,c   Navarro, F J ^a   Banon M ^b   Lapazaran, J J ^a   Otero, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Agencia Estatal de Meteorología ^*  (Spain)

^c Swedish Polar Research Secretariat   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CRYOSPHERE; DATA SET; ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIOLOGY; ISLAND; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MASS BALANCE; MELTWATER; MODEL VALIDATION; RADIATION BUDGET; ROCK GLACIER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SURFACE ENERGY; SURFACE FLUX; WEATHER STATION;

ANTARCTICA; HURD PENINSULA; LIVINGSTON ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

EID: 84861816521     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-6-539-2012     Document Type: Article

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