Concepts
11 concepts
measurement
fractional snow cover area
Proportion of area covered by snow
process
sublimation
metric
monsoon streamflow generation efficiency
The ratio of streamflow produced per unit of monsoon precipitation input compared to other seasonal water sources
measurement
SWE
measurement
particle size distribution
Statistical distribution describing the number concentration of particles as a function of their size
metric
enhancement factor
measurement
fSCA
framework
Budyko framework
metric
percentage change
process
snow sublimation
Direct transition of snow from solid to vapor phase, important for water balance in mountain watersheds
measurement
quantitative precipitation estimate
Estimates of precipitation amount derived from radar and other observational data