Climate change decisive for Asia's snow meltwater supply

PDA Kraaijenbrink, EE Stigter, T Yao… - Nature Climate …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Streamflow in high-mountain Asia is influenced by meltwater from snow and glaciers, and
determining impacts of climate change on the region's cryosphere is essential to understand …

Toward a complete Himalayan hydrological budget: Spatiotemporal distribution of snowmelt and rainfall and their impact on river discharge

B Bookhagen, DW Burbank - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
The hydrological budget of Himalayan rivers is dominated by monsoonal rainfall and
snowmelt, but their relative impact is not well established because this remote region lacks a …

Global evaluation of runoff from 10 state-of-the-art hydrological models

HE Beck, AIJM Van Dijk, A De Roo… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017‏ - hess.copernicus.org
Observed streamflow data from 966 medium sized catchments (1000–5000 km 2) around
the globe were used to comprehensively evaluate the daily runoff estimates (1979–2012) of …

A review of current capabilities and science gaps in water supply data, modeling, and trends for water availability assessments in the Upper Colorado River Basin

FD Tillman, NK Day, MP Miller, OL Miller, CA Rumsey… - Water, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
The Colorado River is a critical water resource in the southwestern United States, supplying
drinking water for 40 million people in the region and water for irrigation of 2.2 million …

Assimilation of remotely sensed soil moisture and snow depth retrievals for drought estimation

SV Kumar, CD Peters-Lidard, D Mocko… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The accurate knowledge of soil moisture and snow conditions is important for the skillful
characterization of agricultural and hydrologic droughts, which are defined as deficits of soil …

Ground-based evaluation of MODIS snow cover product V6 across China: Implications for the selection of NDSI threshold

H Zhang, F Zhang, G Zhang, T Che, W Yan… - Science of the Total …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The new MODIS daily NDSI snow cover product version 6 (V6) is released to replace V5
with significant revisions. This study evaluates, for the first time, the accuracy of product V6 …

Recent evidence of large-scale receding snow water equivalents in the European Alps

C Marty, AM Tilg, T Jonas - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2017‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Snow plays a critical role in the water cycle of many mountain regions and heavily populated
areas downstream. In this study, changes of snow water equivalent (SWE) time series from …

Twenty-first-century projections of snowfall and winter severity across central-eastern North America

M Notaro, D Lorenz, C Hoving… - Journal of Climate, 2014‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Statistically downscaled climate projections from nine global climate models (GCMs) are
used to force a snow accumulation and ablation model (SNOW-17) across the central …

Automation and human expertise in operational river forecasting

TC Pagano, F Pappenberger, AW Wood… - Wiley …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Increased automation and use of computer‐aided decision support systems are attractive
options for hydrologic forecasting agencies faced with growing product complexity and …

Evaluating snow models with varying process representations for hydrological applications

J Magnusson, N Wever, R Essery… - Water Resources …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Much effort has been invested in develo** snow models over several decades, resulting
in a wide variety of empirical and physically based snow models. For the most part, these …