Dynamically downscaled projections of lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes basin

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1661-1684

  Notaro, Michael ^a   Bennington, Val ^a   Vavrus, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKES; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; COLD SEASON PRECIPITATION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LAKE-EFFECT PRECIPITATION; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; THEORETICAL PHYSICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; COUPLING; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHORE (NONMARINE); SNOWSTORM;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES BASIN; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84922829494     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00467.1     Document Type: Article

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