Hindcasting to measure ice sheet model sensitivity to initial states

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1083-1093

  Aschwanden, A ^a   Aoalgeirsdottir G ^b   Khroulev, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE FORCING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HINDCASTING; ICE SHEET; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84883186925     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-1083-2013     Document Type: Article

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