Synthesizing shallow seasonal snow covers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 419-426

  Shook, K ^a   Gray, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

FIELD MEASUREMENT; FRACTAL STRUCTURES; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; LOGNORMAL PROBABILITY DENSITIES; SEASONAL SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

SNOW;

FRACTAL STRUCTURE; MODELLING; SEASONAL; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWFIELD;

EID: 0030620406     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR03532     Document Type: Article

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