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Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-257-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-257-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
Research article
 | 
28 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 28 Jan 2016

Topographic and vegetation effects on snow accumulation in the southern Sierra Nevada: a statistical summary from lidar data

Z. Zheng, P. B. Kirchner, and R. C. Bales

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By analyzing high-resolution lidar products and using statistical methods, we quantified the snow depth dependency on elevation, slope and aspect of the terrain and also the surrounding vegetation in four catchment size sites in the southern Sierra Nevada during snow peak season. The relative importance of topographic and vegetation attributes varies with elevation and canopy, but all these attributes were found significant in affecting snow distribution in mountain basins.
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