Modeling snow accumulation and ablation processes in forested environments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Andreadis, Konstantinos M ^a   Storck, Pascal ^b   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b 3TIER Environmental Forecast Group Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION PROCESS; BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST CANOPIES; FORESTED ENVIRONMENT; FORESTED SITES; MASS AND ENERGY BALANCE; MIDLATITUDE; MODEL FORMULATION; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

ABLATION; WATER;

SNOW;

ABLATION; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BOREAL FOREST; CALIBRATION; ENERGY BALANCE; FOREST CANOPY; INTERCEPTION; LYSIMETER; MASS BALANCE; MODELING; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650320572     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007042     Document Type: Article

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