| Title: |
The GEOTOP snow module.
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| Resource Type: |
document --> technical publication --> journal article
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| Country: |
EU Projects
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| Year: |
2004 |
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Hydrological Processes 18(18), 3667-3679.
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| Author 1/Producer: |
Zanotti F.
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| Other Authors/Producers: |
Endrizzi S., Bertoldi G., Rigon R.
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| Author / Producer Type: |
EC Project
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| Publisher: |
Wiley
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Soil-->Soil Overview
Water and sanitation-->Water and sanitation Overview
Water resources and their management -->River basin management
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
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| Long description: |
GEOTOP, a distributed model of the hydrological cycle, based on digital elevation models (DEMs), calculates the discharge at the basin outlet and estimates the local and distributed values of several hydro-meteorological quantities. This paper presented a snow accumulation and melt module implemented within GEOTOP. The snow module solves soil-snow energy and mass exchanges, and, together with a runoff production module, is embedded in a more general energy balance model that provides all the boundary conditions required. An application to an alpine catchment monitored by an in situ snow-depth sensor is discussed and GEOTOP is shown to give results comparable to those of more complex models.
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Submitted By:
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Dr Antony Chapman WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 30/04/2009
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