Seasonal simulation of drifting snow sublimation in Alpine terrain

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1581-1590

  Groot Zwaaftink, Christine D ^a,b   Mott, Rebecca ^a   Lehning, Michael ^a,b  

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

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

drifting and blowing snow; snow distribution; sublimation

Indexed keywords

SUBLIMATION;

ADVANCED REGIONAL PREDICTION SYSTEMS; BLOWING SNOW; CONCURRENT PRECIPITATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION GRIDS; SELF-LIMITING PROCESS; SHORT TIME SCALE; SNOW DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONS;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SUBLIMATION; TERRAIN; TIMESCALE; WIND FIELD;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84876710663     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20137     Document Type: Article

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