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master thesis
Modeling the hydrologic response of snow-dominated Alpine catchments: the role of sunlight exposure
Da Ronco, Pierfrancesco
2013
This work investigated how important the explicit modeling of sunlight exposure (aspect, slope) is for discharge simulation in a high alpine catchment. The used spatially-explicit hydrological model includes a simple snow accumulation and melt routine (based on the degree-day method) and simulates discharge at a daily time step. The main conclusion of this work is that the role of sunlight exposure, while being crucial to simulate the hydrological response of individual subcatchments, is averaged out at the catchment scale.
Type
master thesis
Authors
Da Ronco, Pierfrancesco
Advisors
Publication date
2013
Note
Master thesis by an ERASMUS student.
Written at
EPFL
Section
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August 13, 2013
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