Instrumenting wildlife water developments to collect hydrometeorological data in remote western U.S. catchments

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1161-1170

  Grant, Nicholas ^a   Saito, Laurel ^b   Weltz, Mark ^c   Walker, Mark ^b   Daly, Christopher ^d   Stewart, Kelley ^b   Morris, Christo ^c  

^a Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS; CLIMATIC MONITORING; CLIMATIC PARAMETERS; HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL DATA; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CATCHMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRISMS; RUNOFF; WATER LEVELS;

WATER TANKS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CATCHMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880728052     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00065.1     Document Type: Article

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