Implications of mountain shading on calculating energy for snowmelt using unstructured triangular meshes

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1767-1778

  Marsh, Christopher B ^a   Pomeroy, John W ^a   Spiteri, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Rockies; Mountains; Radiation modelling; Shading; Snowmelt; Solar radiation; Triangulated irregular networks; Unstructured mesh

Indexed keywords

CANADIAN ROCKIES; MOUNTAINS; SHADING; SNOWMELT; TRIANGULATED IRREGULAR NETWORKS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; ERRORS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SUN; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALGORITHM; CIRQUE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENERGETICS; IRRADIANCE; LIDAR; MOUNTAIN REGION; PREDICTION; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; SOLAR RADIATION; TERRAIN; TRIANGULATED IRREGULAR NETWORK;

CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

MARMOTA;

EID: 84862015781     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9329     Document Type: Article

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