A New Snow Density Parameterization for Land Data Initialization

Snow initialization is crucial for weather and seasonal prediction, but the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) operational models have been found to produce too little snow water equivalent, partly because they assume a constant and unrealistically low snow density for the snowpack...

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Main Authors: Dawson, Nicholas, Broxton, Patrick, Zeng, Xubin
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Dept Hydrol & Atmospher Sci
Language:en
Published: AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622880
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/622880