Spring snow cover deficit controlled by intraseasonal variability of the surface energy fluxes

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Tao ^a   Peng, Shushi ^a,b   Ottlé, Catherine ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

intraseasonal timescale; LSYs; spring snow cover extent; surface energy fluxes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; RADIATION; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LSYS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SNOW-ALBEDO FEEDBACKS; SPRING SNOW; SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES; TIME-SCALES;

SNOW;

DATA SET; ENERGY FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SNOW COVER; SPRING (SEASON); WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84923668587     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/024018     Document Type: Article

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