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DOI	10.5194/tc-10-329-2016
	Snow and albedo climate change impacts across the United States Northern Great Plains
	Fassnacht S.R.; Cherry M.L.; Venable N.B.H.; Saavedra F.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	19940416
卷号	10 期号:1
英文摘要	In areas with a seasonal snowpack, a warmer climate could cause less snowfall, a shallower snowpack, and a change in the timing of snowmelt, all which could reduce the winter albedo and yield an increase in net short-wave radiation. Trends in temperature, precipitation (total and as snow), days with precipitation and snow, and winter albedo were investigated over the 60-year period from 1951 to 2010 for 20 meteorological stations across the Northern Great Plains. This is an area where snow accumulation is shallow but persistent for most of the winter (November to March). The most consistent trends were minimum temperature and days with precipitation, both of which increased at a majority of the stations. Among the stations included, a decrease in the modelled winter albedo was more prevalent than an increase. There was substantial spatial variability in the climate trends. For most variables, the period of record used influenced the magnitude and sign of the significant trends. © Author(s) 2016.
学科领域	albedo; climate change; precipitation intensity; shortwave radiation; snow accumulation; snowmelt; snowpack; spatial variation; temperature profile; Great Plains; United States
语种	英语
scopus关键词	albedo; climate change; precipitation intensity; shortwave radiation; snow accumulation; snowmelt; snowpack; spatial variation; temperature profile; Great Plains; United States
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/119707
作者单位	ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1476, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1375, United States; Geospatial Centroid, CSU, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1019, United States; EASC-Watershed Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1482, United States; Department of Geography, University of Victoria, David Turpin Building B203, 3800 Finnerty Road (Ring Road), Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fassnacht S.R.,Cherry M.L.,Venable N.B.H.,et al. Snow and albedo climate change impacts across the United States Northern Great Plains[J],2016,10(1).
APA	Fassnacht S.R.,Cherry M.L.,Venable N.B.H.,&Saavedra F..(2016).Snow and albedo climate change impacts across the United States Northern Great Plains.Cryosphere,10(1).
MLA	Fassnacht S.R.,et al."Snow and albedo climate change impacts across the United States Northern Great Plains".Cryosphere 10.1(2016).