Biases of April 1 snow water equivalent records in the Sierra Nevada and their associations with large-scale climate indices

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5912-5918

  Montoya, E L ^a   Dozier, J ^b   Meiring, W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE INDEX; GENERALIZED ADDITIVES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MEASUREMENTS OF; PHASE INTERACTIONS; SIERRA NEVADA; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

SNOW;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906001005     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060588     Document Type: Article

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