The goddard snow impurity module (GOSWIM) for the NASA GEOS-5 Earth system model: Preliminary comparisons with observations in Sapporo, Japan

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-56

  Yasunari, Teppei J ^a,b   Lau, K M ^b   Mahanama, Sarith P P ^b,c   Colarco, Peter R ^b   da Silva, Arlindo M ^b   Aoki, Teruo ^d   Aoki, Kazuma ^e   Murao, Naoto ^f   Yamagata, Sadamu ^f   Kodama, Yuji ^g  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

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EID: 84913597260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2014-011     Document Type: Article

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