Generation of an hourly meteorological time series for an alpine basin in British Columbia for use in numerical hydrologic modeling

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 862-882

  Schnorbus, Markus ^a   Alila, Younes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 9444244344     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2004)005<0862:GOAHMT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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