Observed changes in snow depth and number of snow days in the eastern and central Tibetan Plateau

Climate Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-183

  You, Qinglong ^a,b,c,d   Kang, Shichang ^a   Ren, Guoyu ^b   Fraedrich, Klaus ^c   Pepin, Nick ^e   Yan, Yuping ^b   Ma, Lijuan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; North Atlantic Oscillation; Snow days; Snow depth; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; LAKE BAIKAL; LONG-TERM TREND; MACRO SCALE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTH; SNOW DEPTHS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; WATER VAPOR FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAKES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; WATER RESOURCES; WATER VAPOR;

SNOW;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEPTH; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW COVER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79956363845     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00985     Document Type: Review

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