A climatology of snow-to-liquid ratio for the Contiguous United States

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 729-744

  Baxter, Martin A ^a   Graves, Charles E ^a   Moore, James T ^a  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; SNOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

COUNTY WARNING AREAS (CWAS); IN-CLOUD TEMPERATURES; SNOW-TO-LIQUID RATIO;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING METHOD; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 28144452105     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF856.1     Document Type: Article

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