Sublimation over seasonal snowpack at the southeastern edge of a desert in central Eurasia

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 3911-3920

  Zhou, Hong Fei ^a   Zheng, Xin Jun ^a   Zhou, Baojia ^b   Dai, Qiong ^c   Li, Yan ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b Yuxi Institute of Water Resources Electric Engineering and Architecture   (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Desert; Snowpack; Sublimation; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS; BULK AERODYNAMIC; DESERT; EURASIA; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; QUASI-STATIC STATE; SEASONAL SNOWPACK; SNOWPACK; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SNOW; WIND EFFECTS;

SUBLIMATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DESERT; SNOWPACK; SUBLIMATION; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; EURASIA; GURBANTUNGGUT DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84870511695     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8402     Document Type: Article

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