A generalized additive model for the spatial distribution of snowpack in the Spanish Pyrenees

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3167-3176

  Lopez Moreno J I ^a   Nogues Bravo D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Central Spanish Pyreness; General additive models; Model performance; Snow depth distribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ERROR ESTIMATION; GENERAL ADDITIVE MODELS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; SNOW DEPTH DISTRIBUTION;

SNOW;

DEPTH DETERMINATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES; WORLD;

EID: 27744465957     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5840     Document Type: Article

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