Author(s): Terumasa Nishihara, Atsushi Tanise, Kazuyoshi Watanabe
Linked Author(s): Terumasa Nishihara
Keywords: Snow depth distribution, forest, high elevations above the forest line, overground-openness, airborne laser scanning
Abstract: In cold and snowy regions, the snowmelt water stored in dams in early spring is important to meet the water demand until summer. In water resource management, it is very important to estimate snow depth distribution in the catchment basin as accurately as possible before the snow starts to melt. We conducted airborne laser scanning twice, in 2012 and in 2015, to measure the snow depth distribution in the same range of mountainous regions. The pattern of snow depth distribution in two years was almost similar. We found there is a linear relationship between snow depth and elevation in forests and the linear relationship between snow depth overground-openness in the high elevations above the forest line
Year: 2017