Titre
Validation of and comparison between a semidistributed rainfall-runoff hydrological model (PREVAH) and a spatially distributed snow-evolution model (SnowModel) for snow cover prediction in mountain ecosystems
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Randin, C.F.
Co-première auteure/Co-premier auteur
Dedieu, J.P.
Co-première auteure/Co-premier auteur
Zappa, M.
Auteure/Auteur
Long, L.
Auteure/Auteur
Dullinger, S.
Co-dernière auteure/Co-dernier auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1936-0592
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2015
Volume
8
Numéro
7
Première page
1181
Dernière page/numéro d’article
1193
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Snow cover is an important control in mountain environments and a shift of the snow-free period triggered by climate warming can strongly impact ecosystem dynamics. Changing snow patterns can have severe effects on alpine plant distribution and diversity. It thus becomes urgent to provide spatially explicit assessments of snow cover changes that can be incorporated into correlative or empirical species distribution models (SDMs). Here, we provide for the first time a with a lower overestimation comparison of two physically based snow distribution models (PREVAH and SnowModel) to produce snow cover maps (SCMs) at a fine spatial resolution in a mountain landscape in Austria. SCMs have been evaluated with SPOT-HRVIR images and predictions of snow water equivalent from the two models with ground measurements. Finally, SCMs of the two models have been compared under a climate warming scenario for the end of the century. The predictive performances of PREVAH and SnowModel were similar when validated with the SPOT images. However, the tendency to overestimate snow cover was slightly lower with SnowModel during the accumulation period, whereas it was lower with PREVAH during the melting period. The rate of true positives during the melting period was two times higher on average with SnowModel with a lower overestimation of snow water equivalent. Our results allow for recommending the use of SnowModel in SDMs because it better captures persisting snow patches at the end of the snow season, which is important when modelling the response of species to long-lasting snow cover and evaluating whether they might survive under climate change.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_1EB3ABBBF59A
Date de création
2015-11-19T08:22:54.319Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T19:11:59Z