Modelling snowdrift sublimation and its effect on the moisture budget of the atmospheric boundary layer

Richard Bintanja

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v53i2.12189

Modelling snowdrift sublimation and its effect on the moisture budget of the atmospheric boundary layer

Tellus

Volume 53 (2001): Issue 2

By: Richard Bintanja

Open Access

|Jan 2001

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