Expeditionary measurements of snow in extensively forested carpathian mountains: Evaluating parameters variability

Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 45-58

  Křstek, Štěpán ^a   Holuša, Jaroslav ^b   Urbaňcová, Naděžda ^a   Trombik, Jiří ^c   Drápela, Karel ^d  

^a Ministerstvo zemedelstvi   (Czech Republic)

^b FORESTRY AND GAME MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^d MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Density; Depth; Precision; Snow; Variability; Water equivalent

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CADASTRE; CALIBRATION; FOREST COVER; ICE THICKNESS; LINEARITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECISION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; TRIANGULATED IRREGULAR NETWORK;

BESKYDY MOUNTAINS; CARPATHIANS; CZECH REPUBLIC; MORAVSKOSLEZSKY;

EID: 79953324726     PISSN: 18424090     EISSN: 1844489X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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