Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ate ae Journal ecience @joiecr: of Hydrology Journal of Hydrology 282 (2003) 183 www.elsevier.com/locate/jhydrol Contents of Volume Vol. 282, Nos. 1-4 November 10, 2003 Special Issue: Mountain Hydrology and Water Resources Preface A linear upslope-time-delay model for orographic precipitation R.B. Smith Floods in mountain areas—an overview based on examples from Switzerland R. Weingartner, M. Barben and M. Spreafico Management of water resources and low flow estimation for the Himalayan basins of Nepal S.R. Chalise, S.R. Kansakar, G. Rees, K. Croker and M. Zaidman The hydrological role of snow and glaciers in alpine river basins and their distributed modeling M. Verbunt, J. Gurtz, K. Jasper, H. Lang, P. Warmerdam aud M. Zappa Use of statistically and dynamically downscaled atmospheric model output for hydrologic simulations in three mountainous basins in the western United States L.E. Hay and M.P. Clark Evaluation of snow-surface energy balance models in alpine terrain C. Fierz, P. Riber, E.E. Adams, A.R. Curran, P.M.B. Fohn, M. Lehning and C. Pliiss.. 2.0... 2 ene Redistribution of snow and glacier mass balance from a hydronicteorological model M. Kuhn Temperature index melt modelling in mountain areas R. Hock The concept of glacier storage: a review P. Jansson, R. Hock and T. Schneider The impact of glaciers on the runoff and the reconstruction of mass balance history from hydrological data in the tropical Cordillera Blanca, Peru G. Kaser, I. Juen, C. Georges, J. Gomez and W. Tamayo Pee : ae ; Modelling changes in the mass balance of glaciers of the northern hemisphere for a transient 2 X CO, scenario C. Schneeberger, H. Blatter, A. Abe-Ouchi and M. Wild Mountain and subpolar glaciers show an increase in sensitivity to climate warming and intensification of the water cycle M. Dyurgerov Mountain cryospheric studies and the WCRP climate and cryosphere (CliC) project R.G. Barry PH: S0022-1694(03)00372-X