Towards the development of long-term winter records for the Snowy Mountains

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 303-314

  Davis, Clement John ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW COVER; WINTER;

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ALPS; KOSCIUSZKO NATIONAL PARK; NEW SOUTH WALES; SNOWY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84891796254     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6302.003     Document Type: Article

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