Interpolating local snow depth data: An evaluation of methods

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2217-2232

  Lopez Moreno J I ^a   Nogues Bravo D ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Central Spanish Pyrenees; Error estimators; Snowpack; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ERROR ESTIMATORS; LINEAR REGRESSION; SNOW DEPTH; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION;

SNOW;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

DEPTH DETERMINATION; INTERPOLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 33745830827     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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