North American temperature, snowfall, and snow-Depth response to winter climate modes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2320-2332

  Ghatak, Debjani ^a   Gong, Gavin ^b   Frei, Allan ^a,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; DEPTH VARIATION; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; HIGH INDEX; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MECHANISTIC PATHWAYS; NORTH AMERICAN; PARTIAL CORRELATION; SNOW COVER EXTENTS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SPRING SNOW; SUMMER SEASON; WINTER CIRCULATION; WINTER NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; WINTER SNOWPACK;

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SURFACE WATER RESOURCES;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; WINTER;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77953695067     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3050.1     Document Type: Article

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