Changes in transitional snowfall season length in northern Eurasia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Ye, Hengchun ^a   Ellison, Mark ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; EARTH SCIENCES;

SEASONS; NORTHERN EURASIA; SIBERIA; SNOW COVERS;

SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SNOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EURASIA;

EID: 0042200328     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL016873     Document Type: Article

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