Mountain system monitoring at Senator Beck Basin, San Juan Mountains, Colorado: A new integrative data source to develop and evaluate models of snow and hydrologic processes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1773-1788

  Landry, Christopher C ^a   Buck, Kimberly A ^a   Raleigh, Mark S ^b   Clark, Martyn P ^b  

^a Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

meteorological data; mountain hydrology; radiation; snow; streamflow; validation data

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CATCHMENTS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RADIATION; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY; RUNOFF; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; STREAM FLOW; SUN;

GLOBAL SOLAR RADIATION; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MOUNTAIN HYDROLOGY; SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENCE; VALIDATION DATA;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDE; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; ELEVATION; HEADWATER; HEAT FLUX; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MELTWATER; MODEL VALIDATION; MONITORING; MOUNTAIN; MOUNTAIN STREAM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; SNOW; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; STREAMFLOW; WIND VELOCITY;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84894436297     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013711     Document Type: Article

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