Simulating wind fields and snow redistribution using terrain-based parameters to model snow accumulation and melt over a semi-arid mountain catchment

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3585-3603

  Winstral, Adam ^a   Marks, Danny ^a  

^a NORTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital terrain analysis; Distributed modelling; Runoff; Snow redistribution

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; METEOROLOGY; SNOW; SPEED; TURBULENCE; WIND;

UPWIND TOPOGRAPHY; WIND FIELDS;

HYDROLOGY;

CATCHMENT; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; MOUNTAIN REGION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WIND FIELD;

EID: 0037203260     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1238     Document Type: Article

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