Changes in snow cover over Northern Eurasia in the last few decades

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Bulygina, O N ^a   Razuvaev, V N ^a   Korshunova, N N ^a  

^a All Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information World Data Center   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Climate; Duration of snow cover; Linear trend coefficients; Regional features; Snow depth

Indexed keywords

SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE; LINEAR TRENDS; REGIONAL FEATURE; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS;

SNOW;

EID: 70450263957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045026     Document Type: Article

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