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SUBMITTER: Watanabe S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7596238 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Watanabe Satoshi S Kotsuki Shunji S Kanae Shinjiro S Tanaka Kenji K Higuchi Atsushi A
Scientific reports 20201029 1
This study highlights the severity of the low snow water equivalent (SWE) and remarkably high temperatures in 2020 in Japan, where reductions in SWE have significant impacts on society due to its importance for water resources. A continuous 60-year land surface simulation forced by reanalysis data revealed that the low SWE in many river basins in the southern snowy region of mainland Japan are the most severe on record. The impact of the remarkably high temperatures in 2020 on the low SWE was in ...[more]