Using inexpensive temperature sensors to monitor the duration and heterogeneity of snow-covered areas

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Lundquist, Jessica D ^a   Lott, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; DIURNAL TEMPERATURES; INSULATING LAYERS; NEAR-SURFACE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVERED AREA; SNOW COVERS; SNOWMELT MODEL; SOIL SURFACES; TEMPORAL PATTERN;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DIURNAL VARIATION; HETEROGENEITY; SENSOR; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 79551658016     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007035     Document Type: Article

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