Increased Tibetan Plateau snow depth: An indicator of the connection between enhanced winter NAO and late-spring tropospheric cooling over East Asia

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 788-794

  Xiaoge, Xin ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Yu, Rucong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); Snow depth; Tibetan Plateau; Tropospheric cooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953942303     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-9071-x     Document Type: Article

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