Evaluation of updated physical snowpack model SMAP

Bulletin of Glaciological Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-78

  Niwano, Masashi ^a   Aoki, Teruo ^a   Kuchiki, Katsuyuki ^a   Hosaka, Masahiro ^a   Kodama, Yuji ^b   Yamaguchi, Satoru ^c   Motoyoshi, Hiroki ^c   Iwata, Yukiyoshi ^d  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RURAL ENGINEERING   (Japan)

Author keywords

Physical snowpack model; physically based snow albedo model; Snow impurity; Snow Metamorphism and Albedo Process (SMAP); Snow soil coupled simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906082848     PISSN: 13453807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5331/bgr.32.65     Document Type: Article

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