Drifting snow measurements on the Greenland Ice Sheet and their application for model evaluation

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 801-814

  Lenaerts, J T M ^a   P Smeets, C J P ^a   Nishimura, K ^b   Eijkelboom, M ^a   Boot, W ^a   Van Den Broeke, M R ^a   Van De Berg, W J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; ICE DRIFT; ICE MECHANICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW COVER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84900016884     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-801-2014     Document Type: Article

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