The influence of resolution and topographic uncertainty on melt modelling using hypsometric sub-grid parameterization

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 3965-3979

  Hebeler, Felix ^a   Purves, Ross S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Enhanced temperature index model; Hypsometry; Melt modelling; Parameterization; Sub grids; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

PARAMETERIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS; DOWN-SCALING; ENHANCED TEMPERATURE INDEX MODEL; GLOBAL SCALING; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HYPSOMETRY; KEY PROCESSES; LOWER RESOLUTION; MELT MODELLING; MELT RATES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; REFERENCE DATA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SUB-GRIDS; TEMPERATURE INDICES; TEMPERATURE THRESHOLDS; TERRAIN ROUGHNESS; UNCERTAINTY; VARIATIONS OF;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYPSOMETRY; MELT; PARAMETERIZATION; RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 52949110571     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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