A sensitivity study of an energy-budget snow accumulation and ablation model

87th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lei, Fan ^a   Koren, Victor ^b   Smith, Michael ^b   Moreda, Fekadu ^c  

^a Riverside Technology Inc   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MHW Inc

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION MODEL; DATA QUALITY; DATA REQUIREMENTS; ENERGY BUDGETS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INPUT DATAS; MAXIMUM SENSITIVITY; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; MODEL PERFORMANCE; SENSITIVITY FACTORS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SENSITIVITY TO TEMPERATURES; SHORT WAVES; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW MODELS; TEMPERATURE BIAS; TEMPERATURE PERTURBATIONS; TEST RESULTS; WIND SPEED;

BUDGET CONTROL; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; RANDOM ERRORS; SNOW; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84868067711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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