Evaluation of snow cover and depth simulated by a land surface model using detailed regional snow observations from Austria

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Parajka, Juraj ^a,b   Dadson, Simon ^c   Lafon, Thomas ^c   Essery, Richard ^d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY INDEX; AIR TEMPERATURE; AUSTRIA; CLIMATE STATIONS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DATA SETS; EXTREME VALUE; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LAND ENVIRONMENTS; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MEDIAN VALUE; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL PERFORMANCE; OBSERVED DATA; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW MASS SIMULATIONS; SUB-GRIDS; TIME VARYING; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DEPTH; HETEROGENEITY; HUMIDITY; LAND SURFACE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SNOW COVER; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 78650961767     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014086     Document Type: Article

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