Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) and correlation analyses were employed to investigate the winter and spring snow depth in Eurasia and its relationship with Eastern China precipitation based on the observed and reanalyzed data from 1980 to 2016. The results show that the winter and spring snow cover in Eurasia not only highlights a decreasing trend due to global warming (the first EOF mode, its variance accounted for 24.4%...

Accurate representation of soil and snow state variables in the land surface model is crucial for good simulation results. In order to investigate the potential impacts of the overestimated snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) on precipitation over China, we designed comparative experiments over TP with and without updated soil texture data, soil hydrological parameters, and the fresh snow density scheme to address this is...