Snow cover and runoff modelling in a high mountain catchment with scarce data: effects of temperature and precipitation parameters

Fan Zhang,* Hongbo Zhang, Scott C. Hagen, Ming Ye, Dingbao Wang, Dongwei Gui, Chen Zeng, Lide Tian and Jingshi Liu 1 Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 2 Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 3 Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA 4 Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA 5 Cele National Station of Observation & Research for Desert Grassland Ecosystem, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China