Modeling Winter Precipitation Over the Juneau Icefield, Alaska, Using a Linear Model of Orographic Precipitation

Assessing and modeling precipitation in mountainous areas remains a major challenge in glacier mass balance modeling. Observations are typically scarce and reanalysis data and similar climate produ ...

• Publication year

  2018

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  Frontiers in Earth Science

• Publication date

  2018-03-21

• Fields of study

  Geology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3389/feart.2018.00020
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