Projected 21st century changes in snow water equivalent over Northern Hemisphere landmasses from the CMIP5 model ensemble

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1943-1953

  Shi, H X ^a   Wang, C H ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CHINA; NORTH AMERICA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SIBERIA;

EID: 84944406514     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-1943-2015     Document Type: Article

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