Trends in spring snowpack over a half-century of climate warming in California, USA

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2005, Pages 151-156

  Howat, Ian M ^a   Tulaczyk, Slawek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOWPACK; SPRING (SEASON); WARMING;

EID: 30944447490     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756405781813816     Document Type: Article

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