Surface and snowdrift sublimation at Princess Elisabeth station, East Antarctica

Cryosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 841-857

  Thiery, W ^a   Gorodetskaya, I V ^a   Bintanja, R ^b   Van Lipzig, N P M ^a   Van Den Broeke, M R ^c   Reijmer, C H ^c   Kuipers Munneke, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; ENERGY BALANCE; KATABATIC FLOW; MASS BALANCE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW; SUBLIMATION; SURFACE ENERGY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WEATHER STATION; WIND VELOCITY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND;

EID: 84865173343     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-6-841-2012     Document Type: Article

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