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Research article
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19 Aug 2021
Research article |
| 19 Aug 2021
| 19 Aug 2021
Snowpack dynamics in the Lebanese mountains from quasi-dynamically downscaled ERA5 reanalysis updated by assimilating remotely sensed fractional snow-covered area
Esteban Alonso-González
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Spanish Research Council
(IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
Ethan Gutmann
Research Application Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research (RAL-NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA
Kristoffer Aalstad
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Abbas Fayad
Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada
Marine Bouchet
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO),
UPS/CNRS/IRD/INRA/CNES, Toulouse, France
Simon Gascoin
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO),
UPS/CNRS/IRD/INRA/CNES, Toulouse, France
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Short summary
Snow water resources represent a key hydrological resource for the Mediterranean regions, where most of the precipitation falls during the winter months. This is the case for Lebanon, where snowpack represents 31 % of the spring flow. We have used models to generate snow information corrected by means of remote sensing snow cover retrievals. Our results highlight the high temporal variability in the snowpack in Lebanon and its sensitivity to further warming caused by its hypsography.
Snow water resources represent a key hydrological resource for the Mediterranean regions, where...
