Warmer climate: Less or more snow?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 307-319

  Räisänen, Jouni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate projection; Snow; Snow depth; Snow water equivalent

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 38849157791     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0289-y     Document Type: Article

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