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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-211-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-211-2023
Research article
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17 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 17 Jan 2023

Estimating degree-day factors of snow based on energy flux components

Muhammad Fraz Ismail, Wolfgang Bogacki, Markus Disse, Michael Schäfer, and Lothar Kirschbauer

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Fresh water from mountainous catchments in the form of snowmelt and ice melt is of critical importance especially in the summer season for people living in these regions. In general, limited data availability is the core concern while modelling the snow and ice melt components from these mountainous catchments. This research will be helpful in selecting realistic parameter values (i.e. degree-day factor) while calibrating the temperature-index models for data-scarce regions.