Modeling the effect of snow on seasonal runoff within the Truckee River drainage basin
EXTRACT (SEE PDF FOR FULL ABSTRACT):We estimate monthly runoff for a 2-dimensional solution domain containing those areas tributary to Pyramid Lake, Nevada (the Truckee River drainage basin) at a 1-kilometer grid cell spacing. ... To calculate the effect of snow on the hydrologic system, we perform two experiments. In the first we assume that all precipitation falls as rain; in the second we assume that some precipitation falls as snow, thus available water is a combination of rain and snowmelt. We find that considering the effect of snow results in a more accurate representation of mean monthly flow rates, in particular the peak flow during the melt season in the Sierra Nevada. These preliminary results indicate that a relatively simple snow model can improve the representation of Truckee River basin hydrology, significantly reducing errors in modeled seasonal runoff.
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| Format: | conference_item biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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1994
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| Subjects: | Atmospheric Sciences, Limnology, PACLIM, hydrology, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/31495 |
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