Snow-albedo feedback and Swiss spring temperature trends

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 509-516

  Scherrer, S C ^a   Ceppi, P ^b   Croci Maspoli, M ^a   Appenzeller, C ^a  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 84870388834     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0712-0     Document Type: Article

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