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Regional patterns and proximal causes of the recent snowpack decline in the Rocky Mountains, U.S.

Gregory T. Pederson, Julio L. Betancourt, Gregory J. McCabe | March 30th, 2013


Climatologies of Rocky Mountain snowpack are shown to be seasonally and regionally complex, with Pacific decadal variability positively reinforcing the anthropogenic warming trend.

Keywords

climate change, modeling, snowpack, water supply