Gridded Snow Water Equivalent Reconstruction for Utah Using Forest Inventory and Analysis Tree-Ring Data
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Observational and Climate Data
2.2. Tree-Ring Data
2.3. Reconstruction Method
2.4. Gridded Interpolation
2.5. Climate Diagnostics
3. Results
3.1. Calibration and Model Validation
3.2. EOF Analysis and Climate Diagnostics
4. Discussion
Comparison of Spatial Variability
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Barandiaran, D.; Wang, S.-Y.S.; DeRose, R.J. Gridded Snow Water Equivalent Reconstruction for Utah Using Forest Inventory and Analysis Tree-Ring Data. Water 2017, 9, 403. https://doi.org/10.3390/w9060403
Barandiaran D, Wang S-YS, DeRose RJ. Gridded Snow Water Equivalent Reconstruction for Utah Using Forest Inventory and Analysis Tree-Ring Data. Water. 2017; 9(6):403. https://doi.org/10.3390/w9060403
Chicago/Turabian StyleBarandiaran, Daniel, S.-Y. Simon Wang, and R. Justin DeRose. 2017. "Gridded Snow Water Equivalent Reconstruction for Utah Using Forest Inventory and Analysis Tree-Ring Data" Water 9, no. 6: 403. https://doi.org/10.3390/w9060403