An improved representation of physical permafrost dynamics in the JULES land-surface model

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1493-1508

  Chadburn, S ^a   Burke, E ^b   Essery, R ^c   Boike, J ^d   Langer, M ^d,e   Heikenfeld, M ^d,f   Cox, P ^a   Friedlingstein, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c School of GeoSciences   (United Kingdom)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HADLEY CELL; PERMAFROST; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SAMOYLOV ISLAND;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84930203966     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-1493-2015     Document Type: Article

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