RT Journal Article
T1 Interannual oscillations and trend of snow occurrence in the Andes region since 1885
A1 Prieto, Rosario
A1 Herrera, Roberto
A1 Doussel, Patricia
A1 Gimeno, Luis
A1 Ribera, Pedro
A1 García Herrera, Ricardo Francisco
A1 Hernández, Emiliano
AB Using documentary sources, a series of the annual number of snow days in the Mendoza area of Argentina has been constructed. Analysis of the series using Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) and the Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) showed that the number of snow days exhibits interdecadal and interannual oscillations with periods of about 28 and five years. Furthermore a positive trend was detected. This temporal pattern is consistent with studies of the variability of global surface temperature, indicating a strong relationship between temperature and snow occurrence in the climate system and the potential for using snow occurrence as an indicator of climate change.
PB Australian Govt. Publ. Serv.
SN 0004-9743
YR 2001
FD 2001-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57993
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57993
LA eng
NO © Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. The authors wish to thank the UCLA Group who created the SSA toolkit with which the computations were done.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025