An energy-based model accounting for snow accumulation and snowmelt in a coniferous forest and in an open area An energy balance approach was used to simulate snow water equivalent (SWE) evolution in an open area, forest clearing and coniferous forest during winter seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13 in the Bystřice River basin (Krušné Mountains). The aim was to describe the impact of vegetation on snow accumulation and snowmelt under different forest canopy structure and density of trees. Hemispherical photographs were used to describe the forest canopy structure. Energy balance model of snow accumulation and melt was set up. For forest sites the snow model was altered for accounting the effects of the forest canopy on the driving meteorological variables of the snow model. Leaf area index derived from 32 hemispherical photographs of the vegetation and sky was used for forest influence implementation in the snow model. The model was evaluated using snow depth and SWE field data measured at 16 localities in winter seasons from 2011 to 2013. The model was able to reproduce the SWE evolution in both winter seasons beneath the forest canopy, forest clearing and open area with correlations to observations ranging from 0.16 to 0.99. The SWE maximum in forest sites is by 18% lower than in open areas and forest...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:335183 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Matějka, Ondřej |
| Contributors | Jeníček, Michal, Langhammer, Jakub |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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