Relationship between winter/spring snowfall and summer precipitation in the northern great plains of north America

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1203-1217

  Quiring, Steven M ^a   Kluver, Daria B ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SNOW; SNOWMELT; SOIL MOISTURE; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER; WINTER;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 77952636277     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JHM1089.1     Document Type: Article

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