Scaling issues in snow hydrology

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 13, Issue 14-15, 1999, Pages 2149-2175

  Blöschl, Günter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Distributed snow models; Effective parameters; Fractals; Regularization; Representative elementary area; Scale; Scaling; Snow cover patterns; Snow water equivalent; Subgrid variability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SNOW; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; WATER;

REGULARIZATION METHODS; SNOW COVER; SNOW HYDROLOGY; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SUBGRID VARIABILITY; VARIOGRAM;

HYDROLOGY;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS; HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; SCALE EFFECT; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

EID: 0343415039     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199910)13:14/15<2149::AID-HYP847>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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