Circulation responses to snow albedo feedback in climate change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Fletcher, Christopher G ^a   Kushner, Paul J ^a   Hall, Alex ^b   Qu, Xin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATROPICAL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND SURFACE; LOCAL INFLUENCE; NONLOCAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SNOW COVERS; SPATIAL EXTENT; SUBTROPICAL JET;

ATMOSPHERICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SNOW; WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALBEDO; ANOMALY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; JET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEAN; PREDICTION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SNOW; SNOW COVER; WARMING;

EID: 68249150694     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038011     Document Type: Article

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