Use of the recession characteristics of snowmelt hydrographs in the assessment of snow water storage in a basin

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 91-101

  Singh, Pratap ^a   Huebl, H ^b   Weinmeister, H W ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Depletion trend; Hydrograph analysis; Recession coefficients; Snow water storage; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FLOW OF WATER; LANDFORMS; SNOW; WATER; WATERSHEDS;

BASIN; HYDROGRAPH ANALYSIS; HYDROGRAPHS; MELT SEASON; RECESSION; RECESSION COEFFICIENTS; SNOW WATER STORAGE; SNOWMELT;

HYDROLOGY;

CATCHMENT; HYDROGRAPH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SNOWMELT; STORAGE; WATER RESOURCE;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0034098879     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(200001)14:1<91::AID-HYP912>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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