Long-term snow distribution observations in a mountain catchment: Assessing variability, time stability, and the representativeness of an index site

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 293-305

  Winstral, Adam ^a   Marks, Danny ^a  

^a NORTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

distribution; heterogeneity; self similarity; snow

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DISTRIBUTION; HETEROGENEITY; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; WEATHER OBSERVATIONS;

CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; REYNOLDS EQUATION; RUNOFF; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

SNOW;

CATCHMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; MOUNTAIN; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD;

FORESTRY; MELTING; RUNOFF; SNOW;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896736090     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2012WR013038     Document Type: Article

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