Relationships between NW flow snowfall and topography in the Southern Appalachians, USA

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5: Water Pollution

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-47

  Perry, L Baker ^a,b   Konrad, Charles E ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

NW flow snowfall; Southern Appalachian Mountains; Topographic influences

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33947316228     PISSN: 14336863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3354/cr032035     Document Type: Article

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