A new look at Snowpack Trends in the Cascade Mountains

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2473-2491

  Stoelinga, Mark T ^a   Albright, Mark D ^a   Mass, Clifford F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; ANNUAL VARIABILITY; ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CLIMATE MODEL; INTERDECADAL; LOSS RATES; NEW INDICES; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; ONSHORE FLOW; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; RESIDUAL TIME; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TIME-SCALES; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDFORMS; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RADIOSONDE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SNOWPACK; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

CASCADE RANGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 76349124496     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2911.1     Document Type: Article

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