Reconstructing solid precipitation from snow depth measurements and a land surface model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Cherry, Jessie Ellen ^a   Tremblay, L Bruno ^a   Déry, Stephen J ^b   Stieglitz, Marc ^c  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOLIDS; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

NASA SEASONAL-TO-INTERANNUAL PREDICTION PROJECT CATCHMENT LAND SURFACE MODEL (NSIPP CLSM); RECONSTRUCTING SOLID PRECIPITATION; REYNOLDS CREEK EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT (SWE);

SNOW;

DEPTH DETERMINATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

EID: 27644529338     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR003965     Document Type: Article

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