Climate and glacier variability in Western North America

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1804-1815

  Rasmussen, L A ^a   Conway, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GLACIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CANADA; GLACIER VARIABILITY; MASS BALANCE; NCEP-NCAR VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MOISTURE FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 2442482403     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1804:CAGVIW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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