The relationship between spring snow cover and summer atmospheric circulation has been studied using satellite derived snow cover data and 500mb geopotential height. A good correlation was found between April snow cover over West Siberia and June 500mb height over northern part of East Asia.
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Kodera et al. (1989) studied this question.
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