Influences of surface air temperature and atmospheric circulation on winter snow cover variability over Europe

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• snow cover 100%
• atmospheric circulation 98%
• surface temperature 80%
• air temperature 78%
• Europe 67%
• winter 59%
• irradiance 27%
• water vapor 23%
• sea surface temperature 23%
• anomaly 18%
• Southern Oscillation 16%
• sensible heat flux 15%
• North Atlantic Oscillation 15%
• cloud cover 14%
• heat flux 12%
• troposphere 12%
• advection 12%
• continent 11%
• warming 10%
• timescale 10%
• cooling 9%
• disturbance 9%
• loss 7%
• temperature 5%
• analysis 3%