Snow density climatology across the former USSR

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 785-799

  Zhong, X ^a,b   Zhang, T ^c,d   Wang, K ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DENSITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

KAMCHATKA; KAMCHATKA PENINSULA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; USSR;

EID: 84900032957     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-785-2014     Document Type: Article

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