Describing macro-scale structure of the snow cover by a dynamic-stochastic model

Abstract

Possibilities to investigate the spatial structure of snow cover by means of dynamic-stochastic model are discussed in this article. Basin of the Cheboksary reservoir (area of 376 500 sq.km) was used as an example. Results of numerical experiments show that our dynamic-stochastic model of the snow cover formation reproduces a snow field structure with adequate accuracy. The fractal dimensions of the modeled fields are in good correspondence with respective dimensions of fields obtained from data of the in situ observations.

Keywords

• динамико-стохастическое моделирование
• пространственная корреляция
• снежный покров