A quantitative approach to evaluating the effects of snow cover on cold airmass temperatures across the U.S. Great Plains

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 3 PART2, 1998, Pages 688-701

  Ellis, Andrew W ^a   Leathers, Daniel J ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; NATURAL FEEDBACK PROCESS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SNOW;

AIR MASS; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-ICE INTERACTION; FORECASTING METHOD; SNOW COVER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032173287     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<0688:aqatet>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Review

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