Connecting European snow cover variability with large scale atmospheric patterns

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 26, Issue , 2010, Pages 93-97

  Bartolini, E ^a   Claps, P ^a   D'Odorico, P ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATABASE; MOUNTAIN REGION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 77956368068     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-26-93-2010     Document Type: Article

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