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| Titel |
Comparative hydrology to elucidate the role of snow on the long-term water balance of catchments. |
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Wouter Berghuijs, Ross Woods |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2014
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Artikel
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Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
| Datensatznummer |
250087723
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-1782.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| In a warming climate, precipitation is less likely to occur as snowfall. This precipitation shift from snow towards rain affects the within year-distribution of streamflow. Additionally, it is recently shown that such a shift can also reduce the mean streamflow significantly. In this study we use more than a thousand catchments located across the United States and Europe to test this recent observation and to elucidate the role of snow on the long-term water balance. We do this by a systematic comparison of the water balance regimes, snow conditions and landscape characteristics. The aim of the study is twofold: (a) to test the role of snow for the long-term water balance across a much wider range of catchments than previously has been done, and (b) to assess what parts of the streamflow regime are affected by the snow-rain partitioning. |
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