Comparison of satellite-based and re-analysed precipitation as input to glacio-hydrological modelling for Beas River basin, northern India

IAHS-AISH Proceedings and Reports

Volumn 360, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-52

  Li, Lu ^a,b,c   Engelhardt, Markus ^a   Xu, Chong Yu ^a,d   Jain, Sharad K ^e   Singh, V P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Uni Research   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^f Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Global datasets; Large scale Glacier and Snow M elt WASM OD model; Raingauge; TRMM; WFD

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DIGITAL STORAGE; SATELLITES; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

GLOBAL DATASETS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RAIN GAUGES; RAINGAUGE MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRMM; WFD;

DATA PROCESSING;

DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MASS BALANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOWMELT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET; WATER RESOURCE;

BEAS BASIN; INDIA;

EID: 84900392645     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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