Distributed snow accumulation and ablation modeling in the American River basin

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 558-570

  Shamir, Eylon ^a   Georgakakos, Konstantine P ^b  

^a HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

American River; Distributed snow model; Snow cover area; Snow water equivalent; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SNOW GAGES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

DISTRIBUTED SNOW MODEL; SNOW COVER AREA; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT;

SNOW;

ABLATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SNOW; SNOW GAGES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; WATER RESOURCE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31644447533     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.06.010     Document Type: Article

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