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SUBMITTER: Jennings KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5861046 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180320 1
Despite the importance of precipitation phase to global hydroclimate simulations, many land surface models use spatially uniform air temperature thresholds to partition rain and snow. Here we show, through the analysis of a 29-year observational dataset (n = 17.8 million), that the air temperature at which rain and snow fall in equal frequency varies significantly across the Northern Hemisphere, averaging 1.0 °C and ranging from -0.4 to 2.4 °C for 95% of the stations. Continental climates genera ...[more]