Scale effects in a distributed snow water equivalence and snowmelt model for mountain basins

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 10-11, 1998, Pages 1527-1536

  Cline, Don ^a   Elder, Kelly ^b   Bales, Roger ^c  

^a National Weather Service   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; WATERSHEDS;

SNOW WATER EQUIVALENCE (SWE); SNOWMELT MODEL;

HYDROLOGY;

DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SNOWMELT;

UNITED STATES, CALIFORNIA, SIERRA NEVADA;

EID: 0032147468     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199808/09)12:10/11<1527::AID-HYP678>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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