Climatic physical snowpack properties for large-scale modeling examined by observations and a physical model

Polar Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-95

  Saito, Kazuyuki ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Satoru ^c   Iwata, Hiroki ^a   Harazono, Yoshinobu ^a   Kosugi, Kenji ^c   Lehning, Michael ^d   Shulski, Martha ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^d WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Large scale climate models; Observations; Physical property; Snow dynamics model; Snowpack

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ALASKA; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861832628     PISSN: 18739652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polar.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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