Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain
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In this paper, a method for generating daily surfaces of temperature, precipitation, humidity, and radiation over large regions of complex terrain is presented, based on the spatial convolution of a truncated Gaussian weighting filter with the set of station locations.About:
This article is published in Journal of Hydrology.The article was published on 1997-03-15 and is currently open access. It has received 1309 citations till now.read more
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Shortage of nutrients and excess of toxic elements in soils limit the distribution of soil-sensitive tree species in temperate forests
TL;DR: Soil properties relevant for the competitive ability of ash and sycamore were more apparent for mature than for regenerating trees and the topsoil influenced tree abundances more than the subsoil did, and the explanatory power of most soil predictors was tested.
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Thermal effect of climate change on groundwater-fed ecosystems
Erick R. Burns,Yonghui Zhu,Hongbin Zhan,Michael Manga,Colin F. Williams,Steven E. Ingebritsen,Jason B. Dunham +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, steady state solutions of the heat-transport equations are used to identify key processes that control the long-term thermal response of springs and other groundwater discharge to climate change, in particular changes in (1) groundwater recharge rate and temperature and (2) land-surface temperature transmitted through the vadose zone.
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Characterization of an alpine tree line using airborne LiDAR data and physiological modeling
TL;DR: This study utilizes airborne LiDAR data to map tree height and stand density across a series of altitudinal gradients from below to above the tree line within the Swiss National Park, Switzerland and assesses the importance of seasonal variations on four climatically related variables that impose non-linear constraints on photosynthesis.
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Evaluation and Uncertainty Estimation of the Latest Radar and Satellite Snowfall Products Using SNOTEL Measurements over Mountainous Regions in Western United States
TL;DR: A comprehensive evaluation of the Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor snowfall products and Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) (IMERG) precipitation products is conducted using the Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) daily precipitation and Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) datasets.
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Controls on soil organic matter content within a northern hardwood forest
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify factors that influence the spatial distribution and accumulation of SOM in forests, soils and stand composition data from 42 even-aged northern hardwood forest plots were analyzed using multiple linear regression and nonparametric statistical approaches.
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A Statistical-Topographic Model for Mapping Climatological Precipitation over Mountainous Terrain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analytical model that distributes point measurements of monthly and annual precipitation to regularly spaced grid cells in midlatitude regions, using a combination of climatological and statistical concepts to analyze orographic precipitation.
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A general model of forest ecosystem processes for regional applications I. Hydrologic balance, canopy gas exchange and primary production processes
TL;DR: In this paper, an ecosystem process model is described that calculates the carbon, water and nitrogen cycles through a forest ecosystem, which uses leaf area index (lai) to quantify the forest structure important for energy and mass exchange, and represents a key simplification for regional scale applications.
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On the relationship between incoming solar radiation and daily maximum and minimum temperature
TL;DR: In this article, a relationship between atmospheric transmittance and the daily range of air temperature is developed, where the relationship is Tt = A[1 −exp(exp(BΔTc)] where Tt is the daily total atmospherictransmittance, ΔT is the average air temperature, and A, B, and C are empirical coefficients, determined for a particular location from measured solar radiation data.