Contribution of the autumn Tibetan Plateau snow cover to seasonal prediction of North American winter temperature

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2801-2813

  Lin, Hai ^a   Wu, Zhiwei ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interannual variability; North America; Pacific North American pattern; Snow cover; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC-NORTH AMERICAN PATTERN; SNOW COVER; WINTER/COOL SEASON;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FEEDBACK; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; AUTUMN; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; HINDCASTING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79959327829     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3889.1     Document Type: Article

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