The North Atlantic Oscillation and snow avalanching in Iceland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Keylock, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; SNOW; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC OSCILLATIONS; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; HAZARD ZONES; ICELANDS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RE-EVALUATION; RETURN PERIODS; SNOW AVALANCHE CYCLES;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); SNOW;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AVALANCHE; CYCLICITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RETURN PERIOD; SNOW;

ICELAND;

EID: 0042200297     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016272     Document Type: Article

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