A statistical model of spatially distributed snowmelt rates in a boreal forest basin

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 10-11, 1998, Pages 1701-1722

  Metcalfe, R A ^a   Buttle, J M ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONTROL; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SNOW; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

CANOPY CLOSURE INDEX; LATENT HEAT FLUX;

HYDROLOGY;

BOREAL FOREST; MODEL; SNOWMELT;

EID: 0032147473     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199808/09)12:10/11<1701::AID-HYP690>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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