Wind effects on snow cover in Pascua-Lama, Dry Andes of Chile

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-39

  Gascoin, Simon ^a,b   Lhermitte, Stefaan ^b,c   Kinnard, Christophe ^b   Bortels, Kirsten ^b   Liston, Glen E ^d  

^a CESBIO   (France)

^b CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Glacier; MODIS; Snow; Sublimation; Wind

Indexed keywords

2-D CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; ANDES; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SUBLIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

SNOW;

ALTITUDE; GLACIOLOGY; ICE THICKNESS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WIND FIELD;

ANDES; CHILE; PASCUA-LAMA;

EID: 84877104899     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.11.013     Document Type: Article

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