Gridded North American monthly snow depth and snow water equivalent for GCM evaluation

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-14

  Brown, Ross D ^a   Brasnett, Bruce ^a   Robinson, David ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0037494646     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/ao.410101     Document Type: Article

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