Advancement toward coupling of the VAMPER permafrost model within the Earth system model ILOVECLIM (version 1.0): Description and validation

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1445-1460

  Kitover, D C ^a   Van Balen, R ^a   Roche, D M ^a   Vandenberghe, J ^a   Renssen, H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; LAND SURFACE; MODEL VALIDATION; PERMAFROST; POROSITY; SNOW COVER;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND;

EID: 84929997692     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-1445-2015     Document Type: Article

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