Assessing the benefit of snow data assimilation for runoff modeling in Alpine catchments

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3895-3905

  Griessinger, Nena ^a,b   Seibert, Jan ^b   Magnusson, Jan ^c   Jonas, Tobias ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NORWEGIAN WATER RESOURCES AND ENERGY DIRECTORATE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; HYDROLOGY; MONITORING; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; RESERVOIR OPERATION; RUNOFF SIMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOW-COVER DYNAMICS;

SNOW;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CATCHMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; DROUGHT; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RESERVOIR; RUNOFF; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SWITZERLAND;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 84988700641     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-3895-2016     Document Type: Article

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