Oceanic-atmospheric variability and western U.S. snowfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Hunter, Thad ^a   Tootle, Glenn ^a   Piechota, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; OSCILLATIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TELEMETERING;

DATA SETS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO); OCEANIC-ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; SNOW FORECASTERS;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845601158     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026600     Document Type: Article

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