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

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dc.contributor.authorFassnacht, S. R., author
dc.contributor.authorCherry, M. L., author
dc.contributor.authorVenable, N. B. H., author
dc.contributor.authorCopernicus, publisher
dc.coverage.spatialGreat Plains
dc.coverage.spatialFront Range (Colo. and Wyo.)
dc.coverage.spatialKansas
dc.coverage.spatialNebraska
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Dakota
dc.coverage.spatialColorado
dc.coverage.spatialWyoming
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-30T19:45:26Z
dc.date.available2015-09-30T19:45:26Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn areas with a seasonal snowpack, a warmer climate would cause less snowfall, a shallower snowpack and a change in the timing of snowmelt. 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 through March). The most consistent trends were minimum temperature and days with precipitation, which both increased at a majority of the stations. The modeled winter albedo decreased at more stations than where it increased. There were substantial spatial variability in the climate trends. For most variables, the period of record used influenced the magnitude and sign of the significant trends.
dc.description.sponsorshipPublished with support from the Colorado State University Libraries Open Access Research and Scholarship Fund.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationFassnacht, S. R., M. L. Cherry, and N. B. H. Venable, Snow and Albedo Climate Change Impacts Across the United States Northern Great Plains, The Cryosphere Discussion Paper 9 (2015): 3331-3349. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tcd-9-3331-2015
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tcd-9-3331-2015
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/167457
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relationwwdl
dc.relation.ispartofOpen Access Research and Scholarship Fund (OARS)
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dc.rights.licenseThis article is open access and distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subjecttemperature changes
dc.subjectclimate
dc.subjectsnowfall
dc.subjectsnowpack
dc.subjectsnow water equivalent
dc.subjectprecipitation
dc.titleSnow and albedo climate change impacts across the United States Northern Great Plains
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