Polar amplification and elevation-dependence in trends of Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent, 1971-2014

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Hernández Henríquez, Marco A ^a   Déry, Stephen J ^a   Derksen, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; Northern Hemisphere; polar amplification; snow cover extent; snow albedo feedback

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POLAR AMPLIFICATIONS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SNOW COVER EXTENTS; SNOW-ALBEDO FEEDBACKS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; CLIMATE CHANGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928713975     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/4/044010     Document Type: Article

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