Testing above- and below-canopy representations of turbulent fluxes in an energy balance snowmelt model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1107-1122

  Mahat, Vinod ^a   Tarboton, David G ^a   Molotch, Noah P ^b  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; FORESTRY; LATENT HEAT; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

CANOPY REPRESENTATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY EXCHANGES; FORESTED ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICALLY BASED; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

HEAT FLUX;

CANOPY; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY BALANCE; FORESTED CATCHMENT; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; SURFACE ENERGY; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND FIELD;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; NIWOT RIDGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876528240     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20073     Document Type: Article

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