Observed climate-snowpack relationships in California and their implications for the future

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3446-3456

  Kapnick, Sarah ^a   Hall, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; DATA SETS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; REANALYSIS; SIERRA NEVADA; SNOW MASS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPRING TEMPERATURES; STORAGE CAPACITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME PERIODS; WARM SEASONS;

SNOW;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955501409     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI2903.1     Document Type: Article

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