Snow and ice on Bear Lake (Alaska) - sensitivity experiments with two lake ice models

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Semmler, Tido ^a,b   Cheng, Bin ^c   Yang, Yu ^d,e   Rontu, Laura ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Glasnevin Hill ^*  (Ireland)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Albedo; Heat conductivity of snow; Snow on lake ice; Snow to ice transformation; Thermodynamic ice model

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; FRESHWATER; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BEAR LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865125126     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.17339     Document Type: Article

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