Links between snow cover, surface skin temperature, and rainfall variability in the North American monsoon system

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1821-1829

  Matsui, Toshi ^a   Lakshmi, Venkat ^a   Small, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; INFRARED RADIATION; MOISTURE; RAIN; SNOW; SOILS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

MONSOON; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0038684005     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<1821:LBSCSS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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