Diagnosis of the record discharge of Arctic-draining Eurasian rivers in 2007

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Rawlins, Michael A ^a   Serreze, Mark C ^b   Schroeder, Ronny ^a   Zhang, Xiangdong ^c   McDonald, Kyle C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; NAO; River discharge; SWE

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; NAO; NORTHERN EURASIA; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; RIVER DISCHARGE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SWE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 70450228602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045011     Document Type: Article

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