Projection of snow cover changes over China under RCP scenarios

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 589-600

  Ji, Zhenming ^a,b   Kang, Shichang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China; Projection; Regional climate model; Snow cover

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84881023571     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1473-2     Document Type: Article

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