Canopy structure and topography effects on snow distribution at a catchment scale: Application of multivariate approaches

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/johh-2017-0027" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/johh-2017-0027</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/johh-2017-0027" target="_blank" >10.1515/johh-2017-0027</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Canopy structure and topography effects on snow distribution at a catchment scale: Application of multivariate approaches

Original language description

The knowledge of water volume stored in the snowpack and its spatial distribution is important to predict the snowmelt runoff. The objective of this study was to quantify the role of different forest types on the snowpack distribution at a plot scale during snow accumulation and snow ablation periods. Special interest was put in the role of the forest affected by the bark beetle (Ips typographus). We performed repeated detailed manual field survey at selected mountain plots with different canopy structure located at the same elevation and without influence of topography and wind on the snow distribution. A snow accumulation and ablation model was set up to simulate the snow water equivalent (SWE) in plots with different vegetation cover. The model was based on degree-day approach and accounts for snow interception in different forest types. The measured SWE in the plot with healthy forest was on average by 41% lower than in open area during snow accumulation period. The disturbed forest caused the SWE reduction by 22% compared to open area indicating increasing snow storage after forest defoliation. The snow ablation in healthy forest was by 32% slower compared to open area. On the contrary, the snow ablation in disturbed forest (due to the bark beetle) was on average only by 7% slower than in open area. The relative decrease in incoming solar radiation in the forest compared to open area was much bigger compared to the relative decrease in snowmelt rates. This indicated that the decrease in snowmelt rates cannot be explained only by the decrease in incoming solar radiation. The model simulated best in open area and slightly worse in healthy forest. The model showed faster snowmelt after forest defoliation which also resulted in earlier snow melt-out in the disturbed forest.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Vodohospodářský časopis/Journal of Hydrology &amp; Hydromechanics

ISSN

0042-790X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

43-54

UT code for WoS article

000424671200005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85035320467