Using crowdsourced web content for informing water systems operations in snow-dominated catchments

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 5049-5062

  Giuliani, Matteo ^a   Castelletti, Andrea ^a,b   Fedorov, Roman ^a   Fraternali, Piero ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CATCHMENTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAKES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS; MONITORING SYSTEM; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; REAL TIME MONITORING; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

SNOW MAKING;

CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; SNOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ITALY; LAKE COMO; LOMBARDY;

EID: 85007179490     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-5049-2016     Document Type: Article

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