Variability in snow accumulation patterns within forest stands on the interior plateau of British Columbia, Canada

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 3683-3695

  Winkler, Rita D ^a   Moore, R D ^b  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest cover; Snow accumulation; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SNOW; WATER;

FOREST COVER; GENERAL LINEAR MODELS; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW WATER;

FORESTRY;

CORRELATION METHODS; CURVE FITTING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SNOW; WATER;

FOREST COVER; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; WATER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33751105217     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6382     Document Type: Article

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