Topographic control of snowpack distribution in a small catchment in the central Spanish Pyrenees: Intra- and inter-annual persistence

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1989-2006

  Revuelto, J ^a   Lopez Moreno J I ^a   Azorin Molina, C ^a   Vicente Serrano, S M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CATCHMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIMESCALE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 84908273623     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-1989-2014     Document Type: Article

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