Investigation of the snow-cover dynamics in the Upper Euphrates Basin of Turkey using remotely sensed snow-cover products and hydrometeorological data

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 3637-3648

  Akyurek, Zuhal ^a   Surer, Serdar ^a   Beser, Özgür ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Discharge; Modelling; MODIS; Snow

Indexed keywords

ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; EUPHRATES; HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL DATA; KEY ELEMENTS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MICROWAVE SCANNING; MIDDLE EAST; MODELLING; MODIS; PEAK DISCHARGE; SEASONAL EVALUATION; SNOW COVERED AREA; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW-COVER DYNAMICS; SNOW-COVER PRODUCTS; SNOWMELT DISCHARGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; FLOOD CONTROL; MICROWAVE SENSORS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; WATER RESOURCES;

SNOW MAKING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; EOS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK DISCHARGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SSM-I;

EUPHRATES BASIN; KARASU BASIN; TURKEY;

EID: 80054868543     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8090     Document Type: Article

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