| Abstract: | The Wyoming snow fence (shield) has been widely used with precipitation gauges for snowfall measurement at more than 25 locations in Alaska since the late 1970s. This gauge‘s measurements have been taken as the reference for correcting wind-induced gauge undercatch of snowfall in Alaska. Recently, this fence (shield) was tested in the World Meteorological Organization Solid Precipitation Measurement Intercomparison Project at four locations in the United States of America and Canada for six winter seasons. At the Intercomparison sites an octagonal vertical Double Fence with a Russian Tretyakov gauge or a Universal Belfort recording gauge was installed and used as the Intercomparison Reference (DFIR) to provide true snowfall amounts for this intercomparison experiment. The intercomparison data collected were compiled at the four sites that represent a variety of climate, terrain, and exposure. On the basis of these data sets the performance of the Wyoming gauge system for snowfall observations was carefully evaluated against the DFIR and snow cover data. The results show that (1) the mean snow catch efficiency of the Wyoming gauge compared with the DFIR is about 80-90%, (2) there exists a close linear relation between the measurements of the two gauge systems and this relation may serve as a transfer function to adjust the Wyoming gauge records to obtain an estimate of the true snowfall amount, (3) catch efficiency of the Wyoming gauge does not change with wind speed and temperature, and (4) Wyoming gauge measurements are generally compatible to the snowpack water equivalent at selected locations in northern Alaska. These results are important to our effort of determining true snowfall amounts in the high latitudes, and they are also useful for regional hydrologic and climatic analyses. |
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| Citation Author: | Yang, D.; Kane, D. L.; Hinzman, L. D.; Goodison, B. E.; Metcalfe, J. R.; Louie, P. Y. T.; Leavesley, G. H.; Emerson, D. G.; Hanson, C. L. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | An evaluation of the Wyoming gauge system for snowfall measurement; 2000; Article; Journal; Water Resources Research; Yang, D.; Kane, D. L.; Hinzman, L. D.; Goodison, B. E.; Metcalfe, J. R.; Louie, P. Y. T.; Leavesley, G. H.; Emerson, D. G.; Hanson, C. L. |
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| Text: | An evaluation of the Wyoming gauge system for snowfall measurement; 2000; Article; Journal; Water Resources Research; Yang, D.; Kane, D. L.; Hinzman, L. D.; Goodison, B. E.; Metcalfe, J. R.; Louie, P. Y. T.; Leavesley, G. H.; Emerson, D. G.; Hanson, C. L. |
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| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00 -0600 |
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