Estimating snow depletion curves for American River basins using distributed snow modeling

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 334, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 162-173

  Shamir, Eylon ^a   Georgakakos, Konstantine P ^a  

^a HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed modeling; Snow cover area; Snow depletion curve; Snow water equivalent; Snowmelt; Subgrid variability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DRAINAGE; SNOW;

DISTRIBUTED MODELING; SNOW DEPLETION CURVE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SUBGRID VARIABILITY;

RIVERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DRAINAGE; RIVERS; SNOW;

ABLATION; ENERGY BALANCE; FLOW MODELING; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK;

AMERICAN RIVER; CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846420618     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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