Eurasian snow cover versus Indian monsoon rainfall - an extension of the Hahn-Shukla results.

Abstract

The apparent inverse relationship between Eurasian mean winter snow cover extent and the following warm season Indian monsoon rainfall, described by Hahn and Shukla for the 1967-75 period, is substantiated by the addition of five subsequent years of data if known deficiencies in satellite snow observations are accommodated. In this respect, elimination of a bias due to under-observation of snow cover in the Himalayan region during 1967-74 was crucial for the attainment of statistically significant correlations.-from Author