What's wrong when the spring is cold but the snow melts early?

The snow melt in the spring is greatly affected by the ground surface heat and water balance, and early spring weather conditions. The comparison of snow melt time between the climate models and observations revealed the development need particularly for the handling of the ground surface energy economy.

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Senior researcher Petri Räisänen, tel. +358 29 539 2224, petri.raisanen@fmi.fi

Räisänen, P., Luomaranta, A., Järvinen, H., Takala, M., Jylhä, K., Bulygina, O. N., Luojus, K., Riihelä, A., Laaksonen, A., Koskinen, J., and Pulliainen, J.: Evaluation of North Eurasian snow-off dates in the ECHAM5.4 atmospheric general circulation model, Geosci. Model Dev., 7, 3037-3057, doi:10.5194/gmd-7-3037-2014, 2014.

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