Estimating the mean areal snow water equivalent by integration in time and space

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 13, Issue 12-13, 1999, Pages 2051-2066

  Skaugen, Thomas ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN WATER RESOURCES AND ENERGY DIRECTORATE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Satellite images; Snow pillows; SWE

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RUNOFF; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE IMAGES; SNOW PILLOWS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

SNOW;

ACCUMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

NORWAY;

EID: 0033194175     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199909)13:12/13<2051::AID-HYP881>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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