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Author : Gray, D.M.; and O'Neill, A.D.J.
Date : 1973
Title : Application of the energy budget for predicting snowmelt runoff
Publication : Presented at Interdisciplinary Symposium on Advanced Concepts and Techniques in the Study of Snow and Ice Resources.
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Energy budget calculations were made during the snowmelt period in 1972 at the Bad lake Research Watershed in Saskatchewan, Canada. Three separate situations were examined - the energetics of snowmelt for continuous snowcover, the case of an isolated, late-lying snow patch and the melt process on a small treeless basin. The results of the investigations suggest that, on the prairies, net radiation is the dominant energy source for snowmelt at the beginning of melt and that the amount of sensible heat transfer progressively increases in importance as bare ground appears. For a small watershed, it was found that definition of source areas of melt runoff and adjustments to the net radiative flux to account for slope and aspect are essential when attempting to relate budget predictions to the measured basin discharge.
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