An assessment of corrections for eddy covariance measured turbulent fluxes over snow in mountain environments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Reba, Michele L ^a   Link, Timothy E ^b   Marks, Danny ^a   Pomeroy, John ^c  

^a NORTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY CURRENTS; HEAT FLUX; LANDFORMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RUNOFF;

DATA QUALITY ANALYSIS; DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT; EDDY COVARIANCE DATA; EDDY COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS; EDDY COVARIANCE TECHNIQUE; HYDROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MASS AND ENERGY BALANCE;

SNOW;

ABLATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DATA QUALITY; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY BALANCE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; RUNOFF; SEASONALITY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SNOW COVER; TURBULENT FLOW;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 79551676721     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007045     Document Type: Article

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