Future changes in northern hemisphere snowfall

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 7813-7828

  Krasting, John P ^a   Broccoli, Anthony J ^b   Dixon, Keith W ^a   Lanzante, John R ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; HIGHER LATITUDES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE SIGNAL; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WINTER;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84881248161     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00832.1     Document Type: Article

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