Seasonal water balance of an Alpine Catchment as Evaluated by different methods for spatially distributed snowmelt modelling

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 179-202

  Zappa, M ^a   Pos, F ^b   Strasser, U ^c   Warmerdam, P ^b   Gurtz, J ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; WATER;

WATER BALANCE;

HYDROLOGY;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CATCHMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOWMELT; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 0041766725     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2003.0003     Document Type: Article

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