Snowpack and runoff responses to climatic variability, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia

Northwest Science

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 321-333

  Moore, R D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; RUNOFF; SNOWPACK;

CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, COAST MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0030300657     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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