Modelling blowing snow redistribution to prairie wetlands

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2557-2569

  Fang, X ^a   Pomeroy, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blowing snow; Hydrological modelling; Parametirization; Prairie wetlands; Snow sublimation; Snow transport

Indexed keywords

BLOWING SNOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; PARAMETIRIZATION; PRAIRIE WETLANDS; SNOW TRANSPORT;

HYDRAULIC MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAPHY; SIMULATORS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SUBLIMATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURVEYS; WATER; WETLANDS;

SNOW;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BLOWING SNOW; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LIDAR; MELTWATER; PARAMETERIZATION; SIMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAMFLOW; SUBLIMATION; VEGETATION COVER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN; SASKATOON;

EID: 69249117794     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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