The dependence of precipitation types on surface elevation and meteorological conditions and its parameterization

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 513, Issue , 2014, Pages 154-163

  Ding, Baohong ^a,b   Yang, Kun ^a   Qin, Jun ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Chen, Yingying ^a   He, Xiaobo ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Elevation; Precipitation type; Relative humidity; Threshold temperature; Wet bulb temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; SNOW;

ELEVATION; LAND SURFACE MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES; WET BULB TEMPERATURE;

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; ELEVATION; ENERGY BALANCE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RUNOFF; SNOW; THRESHOLD; WEATHER STATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84898622869     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.038     Document Type: Article

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