Climatology and variability of historical Soviet snow depth data: Some new perspectives in snow - Indian monsoon teleconnections

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 475-489

  Kripalani, R H ^a   Kulkarni, A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Indian Monsoon; Soviet snow; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DEPTH; HISTORICAL RECORD; MONSOON; SNOW; TELECONNECTION;

USSR;

EID: 0032878194     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050294     Document Type: Article

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