Snow and albedo climate change impacts across the United States Northern Great Plains

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 329-339

  Fassnacht, S R ^a   Cherry, M L ^a,b   Venable, N B H ^a   Saavedra, F ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958961119     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-329-2016     Document Type: Article

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