Dust radiative forcing in snow of the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2. Interannual variability in radiative forcing and snowmelt rates

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Skiles, S McKenzie ^a   Painter, Thomas H ^a,b   Deems, Jeffrey S ^c,d   Bryant, Ann C ^e   Landry, Christopher C ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c National Snow and Ice Data Center   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORADO , USA; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; DUST DEPOSITION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MICROMETEOROLOGICAL TOWERS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SNOW COVERS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; STUDY AREAS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPERATURE PERTURBATIONS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

SNOW;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; ENERGY BALANCE; MELTING; MICROMETEOROLOGY; OUTFLOW; PEAK FLOW; RADIATIVE FORCING; SNOW; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

COLORADO; COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864741407     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011986     Document Type: Article

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