Change in snow phenology and its potential feedback to temperature in the Northern Hemisphere over the last three decades

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Peng, Shushi ^a   Piao, Shilong ^a,b   Ciais, Philippe ^c   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^d   Zhou, Liming ^e   Wang, Tao ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; climate feedback; global warming; snow phenology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK; GLOBAL WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE FEEDBACKS; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NET RADIATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SNOW COVERS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHENOLOGY; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84876179586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014008     Document Type: Article

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