Articles | Volume 20, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-859-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-859-2016
Research article
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23 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 23 Feb 2016

Importance of maximum snow accumulation for summer low flows in humid catchments

Michal Jenicek, Jan Seibert, Massimiliano Zappa, Maria Staudinger, and Tobias Jonas

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We quantified how long snowmelt affects runoff, and we estimated the sensitivity of catchments to changes in snowpack. This is relevant as the increase of air temperature might cause decreased snow storage. We used time series from 14 catchments in Switzerland. On average, a decrease of maximum snow storage by 10 % caused a decrease of minimum discharge in July by 2 to 9 %. The results showed a higher sensitivity of summer low flow to snow in alpine catchments compared to pre-alpine catchments.