Eurasian snow cover variability and Northern Hemisphere climate predictability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 345-348

  Cohen, Judah ^a,b   Entekhabi, Dara ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SNOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; CLIMATE PREDICTABILITY; COOLING EFFECTS; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEASONAL SNOW COVER; WINTER VARIABILITY;

SNOW; CLIMATOLOGY;

SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SNOW COVER;

ASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 0033082738     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900321     Document Type: Article

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