Improved snowmelt simulations with a canopy model forced with photo-derived direct beam canopy transmissivity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Musselman, Keith N ^a,b   Molotch, Noah P ^b,c   Margulis, Steven A ^a   Lehning, Michael ^d,e   Gustafsson, David ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^g SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY MODEL; CANOPY PARAMETER; CANOPY STRUCTURE; DIRECT BEAMS; LEAF AREA INDEX; MELT BEHAVIOR; MELTWATER FLUXES; MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS; NEGATIVE BIAS; OVERALL-MODEL; PHYSICALLY BASED; PREDICTIVE CAPACITY; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SIERRA NEVADA , CALIFORNIA; SNOW COVERS; SNOW MODELS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SUBCANOPY; TEMPORAL MODELS; THREE MODELS; TIME STEP; TIME VARYING; TRANSMISSIVITY; ULTRASONIC SNOW DEPTH SENSOR; WATER YEAR;

DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; MIXED FOREST; SENSOR; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SOIL WATER; TRANSMISSIVITY;

COMPUTERS; FORESTRY; MELTING; MOISTURE; SIMULATION; SNOW; SOIL;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867509214     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012285     Document Type: Article

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