Nonuniform distribution of tundra snow cover in eastern Siberia

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-389

  Hirashima, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohata, Tetsuo ^a,b   Kodama, Yuji ^a   Yabuki, Hironori ^b   Sato, Norifumi ^a   Georgiadi, Alexander ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; TUNDRA; WATERSHED;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 3242742924     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2004)005<0373:NDOTSC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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