Rain on snow: Little understood killer in the North

Eos

Volumn 90, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 221-222

  Putkonen, J ^a   Grenfell, T C ^b   Rennert, K ^b   Bitz, C ^b   Jacobson, P ^b   Russell, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL IDENTITY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FROZEN GROUND; FUNGUS; GLOBAL WARMING; GRAZING; ISOLATED POPULATION; LICHEN; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURAL HAZARD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RAINFALL; REAL TIME; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOWPACK; SOIL SURFACE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOXIC ORGANISM; UNGULATE; WEATHER STATION;

BANKS ISLAND; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 68949088540     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009EO260002     Document Type: Article

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