Relating air temperatures to the depletion of snow covered area in a Himalayan basin

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 267-280

  Singh, Pratap ^a   Bengtsson, Lars ^b   Berndtsson, Ronny ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (India)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

MOUNTAINOUS BASINS; SNOW COVERED AREA (SCA);

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; SATLUJ BASIN;

EID: 0344121672     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2003.0007     Document Type: Article

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