Insights into the physical processes controlling correlations between snow distribution and terrain properties

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4545-4563

  Anderson, Brian T ^a   McNamara, James P ^b   Marshall, Hans Peter ^b   Flores, Alejandro N ^b  

^a US Forest Service Lost River Ranger District   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

SNODAS; snow distribution; variogram

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; SNOW;

ENERGETIC DIFFERENCES; FORESTED SITES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SNODAS; SNOW DISTRIBUTION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; TERRAIN CORRELATIONS; VARIOGRAMS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84901736421     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013714     Document Type: Article

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