Relationships between recent pan-arctic snow cover and hydroclimate trends

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2048-2064

  Shi, Xiaogang ^a   Déry, Stephen J ^b   Groisman, Pavel Ya ^c   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PRIMARY ENERGY SOURCE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DIGITAL STORAGE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NET RADIATION; NOAA SATELLITE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84875869276     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00044.1     Document Type: Article

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