Can the Tibetan Plateau snow cover influence the interannual variations of Eurasian heat wave frequency?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 2016, Pages 3405-3417

  Wu, Zhiwei ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Chen, Hua ^a   Li, Yun ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Heat waves; Tibetan Plateau snow cover

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; SNOW COVER; SUMMER; WARMING;

CHINA; EURASIA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84937825137     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2775-y     Document Type: Article

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