Meteorological conditions on an Arctic ice cap-8years of automatic weather station data from Austfonna, Svalbard

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2047-2058

  Schuler, Thomas V ^a   Dunse, Thorben ^a   Østby, Torbjørn I ^a   Hagen, Jon O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic glacier; Automatic weather station; Glacier mass

Indexed keywords

SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM LINE ALTITUDES; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; RELATIVE AIR HUMIDITIES; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION;

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIER; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE CAP; LONGWAVE RADIATION; METEOROLOGY; NET RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TIME SERIES;

ARCTIC; AUSTFONNA; NORDAUSTLANDET; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84899490297     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3821     Document Type: Article

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