Snowpack variability across various spatio-temporal resolutions

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1213-1224

  Lopez Moreno J I ^a   Revuelto, J ^a   Fassnacht, S R ^b   Azorin Molina C ^a   Vicente Serrano, S M ^a   Moran Tejeda E ^a   Sexstone, G A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Pyrenees; Snow variability; Sub grid resolution; Terrestrial laser scanner

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; LASER APPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SCANNING; SNOW; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; PYRENEES; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; STEPWISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SUB-GRIDS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS;

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL);

EID: 84923847093     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10245     Document Type: Article

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