Development of a hydrochemical model for seasonally snow- covered alpine watersheds: Application to Emerald Lake watershed, Sierra Nevada, California

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1061-1074

  Wolford, Ross A ^a,b   Bales, Roger C ^a   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b GRAM Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; MINERAL; NITROGEN; SNOW; WATER;

ALGORITHM; CANOPY; CATCHMENT; DRY DEPOSITION; LAKE; MODEL; PRECIPITATION; PULSE RATE; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WATERSHED; WEATHERING;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; RIPARIA;

ALPINE WATERSHED; CATCHMENT MODEL; HYDROCHEMICAL MODEL; SNOWMELT;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0029738140     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR03726     Document Type: Article

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