Objective quantitative spatial verification of distributed snow cover simulations - An experiment for the whole of Switzerland

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 179-191

  Zappa, Massimiliano ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Categorical statistics; Distributed hydrological modelling; MOdel verification; NOAA AVHRR; Snow cover

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; STATISTICS;

DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; DISTRIBUTED SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS;

HYDROLOGY;

AVHRR; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NOAA SATELLITE; SIMULATION; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 40349112859     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1623/hysj.53.1.179     Document Type: Article

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