SNOTEL representativeness in the Rio Grande headwaters on the basis of physiographics and remotely sensed snow cover persistence

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 723-739

  Molotch, Noah P ^a   Bales, Roger C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Merced   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary regression tree; Observation network design; SNOTEL; Snow cover; Snow water equivalent

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SNOW; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

BINARY CLASSIFICATION TREE MODEL; BINARY REGRESSION TREE; OBSERVATION NETWORK DESIGN; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWCOVER PERSISTENCE VALUES; SNOWPACK TELEMETRY (SNOTEL); SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC ANALYSES;

HYDROLOGY;

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SNOW; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; TELEMETRY;

NORTH AMERICA; RIO GRANDE;

LILIUM;

EID: 33644908490     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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