Evidence for a relationship between spring snow cover in North America and summer rainfall in New Mexico

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2207-2210

  Gutzler, David S ^a   Preston, Jessica W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; RAIN; SNOW;

EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS (ENSO) FLUCTUATIONS; INTERANNUAL PRECIPITATION ANOMALY MODULATION; SPRING SNOW COVER; SUMMER RAINFALL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

RAINFALL; SNOW COVER;

NORTH AMERICA; USA, NEW MEXICO;

EID: 0031224980     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02099     Document Type: Article

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