Assessing snow albedo feedback in simulated climate change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2617-2630

  Qu, Xin ^a   Hall, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERE'S ATTENUATION; PLANETARY ALBEDO; SNOW ALBEDO FEEDBACK; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE ALBEDO;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ALBEDO; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SIMULATION;

EID: 33645801809     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3750.1     Document Type: Article

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