The Greenland Ice Sheet's surface mass balance in a seasonally sea ice-free Arctic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1533-1544

  Day, J J ^a   Bamber, J L ^b   Valdes, P J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPORATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84887850485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20112     Document Type: Article

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