The impact of precipitation type discrimination on hydrologic simulation: Rain-snow partitioning derived from HMT-west radar-detected brightband height versus surface temperature data

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1139-1158

  Mizukami, Naoki ^a,c   Koren, Victor ^a   Smith, Michael ^a   Kingsmill, David ^a,b   Zhang, Ziya ^a   Cosgrove, Brian ^a   Cui, Zhengtao ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MAPPING; PARTITIONING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW; STREAMFLOW; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AMERICAN RIVER; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883793503     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-035.1     Document Type: Article

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