Embedded-sensor network design for snow cover measurements around snow pillow and snow course sites in the Sierra Nevada of California

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Rice, Robert ^a   Bales, Roger C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CANOPY COVER; CANOPY DENSITY; CONTINUOUS DATA; FORESTED AREA; NETWORK DESIGN; OPERATIONAL NETWORK; PHYSIOGRAPHIC FEATURES; SIERRA NEVADA; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STUDY AREAS; ULTRASONIC SNOW DEPTH SENSOR; YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK;

ABLATION; CURRICULA; FORESTRY; SENSOR NETWORKS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVEYS;

SNOW;

DATA SET; GEOACCUMULATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NETWORK DESIGN; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79956309477     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007318     Document Type: Review

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