21st century Wisconsin snow projections based on an operational snow model driven by statistically downscaled climate data

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1615-1633

  Notaro, Michael ^a   Lorenz, David J ^a   Vimont, Daniel ^a   Vavrus, Stephen ^a   Kucharik, Christopher ^a   Franz, Kristie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Operational snow model; Snow; Statistical downscaling; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE DATA; COLD SEASON; DAILY TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERCOMPARISONS; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; OPERATIONAL SNOW MODEL; PROJECT PHASE; REDUCED FREQUENCY; RISING TEMPERATURES; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW MODELS; SNOWMELT; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; WISCONSIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW; SNOWMELT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 80051493756     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2179     Document Type: Article

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