Impact of dust radiative forcing in snow on accuracy of operational runoff prediction in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3945-3949

  Bryant, Ann C ^a   Painter, Thomas H ^b   Deems, Jeffrey S ^c,d   Bender, Stacie M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c National Snow and Ice Data Center   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NOAA/National Weather Service   (United States)

Author keywords

dust; MODIS; radiative forcing; snow hydrology; streamflow

Indexed keywords

COLORADO BASIN RIVER FORECAST CENTERS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; MODIS; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SNOW HYDROLOGY; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ERRORS; FORECASTING; NASA; RADIOMETERS; RUNOFF; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

DUST;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; CORRELATION; DUST; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADIATIVE FORCING; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA]; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84881126254     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50773     Document Type: Article

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