Snow hydrology in Mediterranean mountain regions: A review

A Fayad, S Gascoin, G Faour, JI López-Moreno… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Water resources in Mediterranean regions are under increasing pressure due to climate
change, economic development, and population growth. Many Mediterranean rivers have …

Review of snow data assimilation methods for hydrological, land surface, meteorological and climate models: Results from a cost harmosnow survey

J Helmert, A Şensoy Şorman, R Alvarado Montero… - Geosciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action ES1404
“HarmoSnow”, entitled,“A European network for a harmonized monitoring of snow for the …

Improving snow water equivalent maps with machine learning of snow survey and lidar measurements

PD Broxton, WJD Van Leeuwen… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the semiarid interior western USA, where a majority of surface water supply comes from
mountain forests, high‐resolution aerial lidar‐based surveys are commonly used to study …

Using a fixed-wing UAS to map snow depth distribution: an evaluation at peak accumulation

C De Michele, F Avanzi, D Passoni, R Barzaghi… - The …, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
We investigate snow depth distribution at peak accumulation over a small Alpine area (∼
0.3 km 2) using photogrammetry-based surveys with a fixed-wing unmanned aerial system …

[HTML][HTML] Climate elasticity of evapotranspiration shifts the water balance of Mediterranean climates during multi-year droughts

F Avanzi, J Rungee, T Maurer, R Bales… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Multi-year droughts in Mediterranean climates may shift the water balance, that is, the
partitioning rule of precipitation across runoff, evapotranspiration, and sub-surface storage …

High resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy

L Alfieri, F Avanzi, F Delogu, S Gabellani… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Satellite Earth observations (EO) are an accurate and reliable data source for atmospheric
and environmental science. Their increasing spatial and temporal resolution, as well as the …

Seasonal aspects of the energy-water nexus: The case of a run-of-the-river hydropower plant

L Gaudard, F Avanzi, C De Michele - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The energy-water nexus presents important implications at seasonal scale. For instance,
electricity prices and streamflow have complex seasonal patterns and changes in both may …

Centimetric accuracy in snow depth using unmanned aerial system photogrammetry and a multistation

F Avanzi, A Bianchi, A Cina, C De Michele, P Maschio… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Performing two independent surveys in 2016 and 2017 over a flat sample plot (6700 m 2),
we compare snow-depth measurements from Unmanned-Aerial-System (UAS) …

[HTML][HTML] Learning about precipitation lapse rates from snow course data improves water balance modeling

F Avanzi, G Ercolani, S Gabellani… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Precipitation orographic enhancement is the result of both synoptic circulation and
topography. Since high-elevation headwaters are often sparsely instrumented, the …

[HTML][HTML] NH-SWE: Northern Hemisphere Snow Water Equivalent dataset based on in situ snow depth time series

A Fontrodona-Bach, B Schaefli… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Ground-based datasets of observed snow water equivalent (SWE) are scarce, while gridded
SWE estimates from remote-sensing and climate reanalysis are unable to resolve the high …