A case study of the synoptic patterns influencing midwinter snowmelt across the northern Great Plains

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2293-2305

  Grundstein, Andrew J ^a   Leathers, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Plains; Numerical modelling; Snowmelt; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; SIMULATION MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WIND;

SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY;

SNOW;

NUMERICAL METHOD; SNOWMELT; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032447973     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199812)12:15<2293::AID-HYP797>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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