Use of Forest Attributes in Snowpack Inventory - Prediction Relationships for Arizona Ponderosa Pine
Inventory-prediction equations describing snowpack accumulations as functions of readily available or easily obtained measurements of forest density and land form were developed for use in Arizona ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Laws.) Although empirical, these equations include forest density measurements assumed to index interception of input precipitation, obstruction of direct-beam solar radiation, and radiation emission from trees onto the snowpack. Measurements of land form factors index the quantity of direct-beam solar radiation.