Articles | Volume 24, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5317-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5317-2020
Technical note
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14 Nov 2020
Technical note |  | 14 Nov 2020

Technical note: Precipitation-phase partitioning at landscape scales to regional scales

Elissa Lynn, Aaron Cuthbertson, Minxue He, Jordi P. Vasquez, Michael L. Anderson, Peter Coombe, John T. Abatzoglou, and Benjamin J. Hatchett

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Precipitation partitioning across western US landscapes (1948–present) is estimated by combining gridded precipitation data with freezing level and precipitation data from an atmospheric reanalysis. Spatial patterns and trends in the precipitation phase over elevational and latitudinal gradients are examined. The largest increases in precipitation falling as rain occur during spring. This technique can be used as a diagnostic indicator to inform adaptive water management strategy development.
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