Snowmelt Forecasting as a Contribution to Operational Flood Warning: A System Integrating Remote Sensing Data and Meteorological Model Output

Abstract

A system for operational snowmelt runoff prediction is described as it is presently being implemented for the Rhein-Felsberg basin of the river Rhein in Switzerland. It incorporates a hydrological snow melt model driven by remote sensing data, synoptic measurements and output of a meteorological forecast model. The system components are discussed and first test results are demonstrated.