Monitoring snow-cover depletion by coupling satellite imagery with a distributed snowmelt model

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 71-78

  Lavallée, Stéphane ^a   Brissette, François P ^a   Leconte, Robert ^a   Larouche, Bruno ^b  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b ALCAN INTERNATIONAL LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Floods; Hydroelectric power generation; Models; Remote sensing; Snow cover; Snowmelt; United States

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITION MONITORING; FLOODS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CANADA; HYDROELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

WATERSHEDS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITION MONITORING; FLOODS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; WATERSHEDS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

MONITORING SYSTEM; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOWMELT; WATERSHED;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33144458196     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9496(2006)132:2(71)     Document Type: Article

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