Monthly trends and the corresponding altitudinal shift in the snowfall/precipitation day ratio

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 437-444

  Serquet, Gaëlle ^a,b   Marty, Christoph ^c   Rebetez, Martine ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SNOW; TREND ANALYSIS;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84887321471     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0847-7     Document Type: Article

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