Impact of disturbed desert soils on duration of mountain snow cover

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Painter, Thomas H ^a,b   Barrett, Andrew P ^a   Landry, Christopher C ^c   Neff, Jason C ^a   Cassidy, Maureen P ^a   Lawrence, Corey R ^a   McBride, Kathleen E ^d   Farmer, G Lang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Center for Snow and Avalance Studies   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DUST; LANDFORMS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SOILS;

DESERT SOILS; SHORTWAVE RADIATIVE FORCING; SNOW COVER;

SNOW;

DEPOSITION; DESERT SOIL; DROUGHT; DUST; MOUNTAIN REGION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SNOW COVER;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38849149647     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030284     Document Type: Article

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