Evaluation of North Eurasian snow-off dates in the ECHAM5.4 atmospheric GCM

Evaluation of North Eurasian snow-off dates in the ECHAM5.4 atmospheric GCM P. Räisänen, A. Luomaranta, H. Järvinen, M. Takala, K. Jylhä, O. N. Bulygina, A. Riihelä, A. Laaksonen, J. Koskinen, and J. Pulliainen Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, World Data Centre, Obninsk, Russian Federation (RIHMI-WDC), Russia Department of Physics, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland Finnish Geodetic Institute, Masala, Finland

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