Use of spatially distributed stream stage recorders to augment rain gages by identifying locations of thunderstorm precipitation and distinguishing rain from snow

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Lundquist, Jessica ^a   Huggett, Brian ^b   Roop, Heidi ^c   Low, Natalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN DISCHARGE; COMPLEX TERRAINS; HEADWATER STREAM; POINT MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; SHALLOW SOILS; SIERRA NEVADA , CALIFORNIA; STEEP BASINS;

HYDRAULICS; SNOW; THUNDERSTORMS;

RAIN;

BASIN ANALYSIS; COMPLEX TERRAIN; HEADWATER; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; SENSOR; SHALLOW SOIL; SNOW; STREAMFLOW; THUNDERSTORM;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79551702804     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006995     Document Type: Article

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