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A study of the sensitivity of the surface temperature in Eurasia in winter to snow-cover anomalies: The role of the stratosphere

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This study is devoted to the influence that anomalous snow cover in the Siberian autumn has on the surface temperature in the winter months using the intermediate complexity model of a climate system. The possible mechanisms of the effect that a thermal forcing anomaly on surfaces attributed to the troposphere-stratosphere interaction has on the temperature regime in winter are considered.

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  1. Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akad. Lavrent’eva 6, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    Yu. V. Martynova & V. N. Krupchatnikov

  2. Siberian Regional Hydrometeorological Institute, Russian Hydrometeorological Research Center, ul. Sovetskaya 30, Novosibirsk, 630092, Russia

    V. N. Krupchatnikov

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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Martynova, V.N. Krupchatnikov, 2010, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2010, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 818–830.

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Martynova, Y.V., Krupchatnikov, V.N. A study of the sensitivity of the surface temperature in Eurasia in winter to snow-cover anomalies: The role of the stratosphere. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 46, 757–769 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433810060071

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