Influence of Winter North Atlantic Oscillation Index (NAO) on Climate and Snow Accumulation in the Mediterranean Mountains

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 46, Issue , 2011, Pages 73-89

  López Moreno, Juan I ^a   Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^a   Morán Tejeda, Enrique ^a   Lorenzo Lacruz, Jorge ^a   Zabalza, Javier ^a   Kenawy, Ahmed El ^a   Beniston, Martin ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); Precipitation; Snow; Temperature; The Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873836478     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1372-7_6     Document Type: Chapter

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