SENSITIVITY OF AN ENERGY-BALANCE CLIMATE MODEL WITH PREDICTED SNOWFALL RATES Academic Article

abstract

• A two-level zonally-averaged seasonal energy balance model with separate land and ocean temperatures and an explicit surface energy budget is used to study the effects of snowfall rate on the extent of snow cover and ice sheets. Sensitivity experiments are performed both with and without ice sheets and with two different snowfall parameterizations. When snowfall rates are prescribed independent of latitude, higher snowfall rates increase the area of snow cover but reduce the sensitivity of the snow line to changes of the solar constant. -from Author

authors

• Bowman, Kenneth

published proceedings

• TELLUS SERIES A-DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

author list (cited authors)

• BOWMAN, K. P.

citation count

• 5

complete list of authors

• BOWMAN, KP

publication date

• January 1985

publisher

• Stockholm University Press  Publisher

published in

• Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography  Journal

keywords

• 13 Climate Action

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1600-0870.1985.tb00424.x

start page

• 233

end page

• 248

volume

• 37

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%2Fj.1600-0870.1985.tb00424.x

user-defined tag

• 13 Climate Action