The role of snow cover fluctuations in multiannual NAO persistence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Bojariu, Roxana ^a   Gimeno, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; SNOW; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

SNOW COVER FLUCTUATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DECADAL TIMESCALE; EURASIAN SNOWS; INTERANNUAL; OBSERVED DATA; SNOW COVERS;

GEOPHYSICS; SNOW;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SNOW COVER;

EID: 0037828522     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015651     Document Type: Article

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