Characteristics of snowfall over the eastern half of the United States and relationships with principal modes of low-frequency atmospheric variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 234-250

  Serreze, Mark C ^a   Clark, Martyn P ^a   Mcginnis, David L ^a   Robinson, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TEMPERATURE;

LOW FREQUENCY ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION PATTERN;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIATION; PRECIPITATION; SNOWFALL; TEMPERATURE;

USA, (EAST);

EID: 0032004076     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<0234:COSOTE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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