Representativeness of arctic weather station data for the computation of snowmelt in a small area

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 13, Issue 12-13, 1999, Pages 1859-1870

  Woo, Ming Ko ^a   Yang, Daqing ^b   Young, Kathy L ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Albedo; Arctic; Data representativeness; Human effects; Microclimate; Snowmelt; Weather station data

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HYDROLOGY; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ALBEDO; ARCTIC WEATHER STATION DATA; HUMAN EFFECTS; SNOWMELT;

SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ESTIMATION METHOD; SNOWMELT; WEATHER STATION;

CANADA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; RESOLUTE;

EID: 0033190439     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199909)13:12/13<1859::AID-HYP893>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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