Relationships between snow and the wintertime minneapolis urban heat island

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1884-1894

  Malevich, Steven B ^a   Klink, Katherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Snow; Snow cover; Snowfall; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; INSULATING PROPERTIES; MINNEAPOLIS; MINNESOTA; MODEL RESULTS; SNOW COVER; SNOW COVERS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN METEOROLOGY; URBAN SITE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

SNOW;

ALBEDO; COLD REGION; HEAT ISLAND; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SNOW; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WINTER;

MINNEAPOLIS; MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053210610     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-05.1     Document Type: Article

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