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Abstract A simple temperature index for day-to-day forecasting of snowmelt runoff is described. The index is based on the unit hydrograph principle and is constructed by weighting antecedent temperatures in proportion to the ordinates of the basin's snowmelt unit graph. To complement the temperature index, a contributing area index is developed using the variation in seasonal flow between two adjacent basins with different area-elevation characteristics.
Vail P. Schermerhorn (Fri,) studied this question.