Applications in Snow Hydrology

Huning, Laurie

H042
Applications in Snow Hydrology

Session ID#: 249689

Session Description:

Seasonal snow significantly influences water availability and governs the energy balance and water cycle in snow-dominated areas. Advances in field measurements, remote sensing, modeling, and emerging data analysis techniques support improved mechanistic understandings of the ways that snowpack accumulation and melt interact with other processes (i.e., climate dynamics, infrastructure, water management practices). This session welcomes all submissions that address snow hydrology in natural and human systems. Particularly, we invite submissions that broadly relate to the hydrological processes that govern snowpack's contribution to streamflow generation, with potential topics including but not limited to: how the seasonal snowpack is partitioned between hydrologic stores and fluxes such as sublimation, evapotranspiration, runoff, and soil moisture; how changes in precipitation phase and changes in snowmelt characteristics (rate, timing, and amount) alter streamflow generation dynamics; and how we can advance our understanding of snow-derived streamflow generation across different scales and under historical and/or future conditions.

Co-Sponsor(s):

C - Cryosphere

Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
1860 Streamflow [HYDROLOGY]
1884 Water supply [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener: Laurie Huning, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management, Long Beach, United States

Conveners: Melissa Wrzesien, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Daniel McEvoy, Desert Research Institute, Reno, United States and Elizabeth Burakowski, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States

Student/Early Career Convener: Eunsaem Cho, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States

Modeling Northeastern Snowpacks for Snowmelt and Ground Frost Applications (Invited) (1852496)

Haejo Kim¹, Aaron Mohammed², Samuel E Tuttle² and Anna Grunes³, (1)Syracuse University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, United States, (2)Syracuse University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States, (3)University of Vermont, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Burlington, VT, United States

Interannual Variations in Spring Snowmelt Timing of Alaskan Black Spruce Forests Using a Bulk-Surface Energy Balance Approach (1863451)

Hiroki Ikawa, Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, Sapporo, Japan, Taro Nakai, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Yoshinobu Harazono, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States, Hiroki Iwata, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan, Dr. Hirohiko Nagano, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka-Gun, Tokai-Mura, Japan, Kazuyuki Saito, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, Masahito Ueyama, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan and Hideki Kobayashi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, RIGC, Kanagawa, Japan

Diagnosing Potential Drivers of SWE Biases in the Noah-MP Land Model Across the Western U.S. (1868274)

Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig¹, Dr. Cenlin He², Changhai Liu³, Tzu-Shun Lin⁴, Michael J Barlage⁵, Lulin Xue⁴, Kabir Rasouli⁶, Yongxin Zhang³, Andrew James Newman⁴ and Timothy Schneider⁷, (1)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (2)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)NOAA/OAR/GSL, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (7)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States

Changes in duration and intensity of snow droughts and their hydrological impacts in the Snowy Mountains (Australia) (1871666)

Juan Ignacio López, IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, John N Callow, The University of Queensland, Crawley, WA, Australia, Sergio M Vicente-Serrano, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza, Spain and Shane Bilish, Snowy Hydro Ltd, Cooma, NSW, Australia

Evaluating changes in winter snowpack conditions and impacts on Alaskan communities (Invited) (1873594)

Keith N Musselman, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Nicole Michelle Herman-Mercer, USGS, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, Denver, United States, Diamond V. Ebanks, U.S. Geological Survey, New Cumberland, United States, Jennifer Bacon, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, Alie Minium, University of Idaho, Moscow, United States, Albane Challamel, University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, Peyton Thomas, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Ryan Toohey, USGS Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, Dylan Blaskey, University of South Carolina, Boulder, United States, Sam Neitlich, Independent researcher, Bozeman, United States, Yifan Cheng, University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, United States, Andrew James Newman, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Arctic Rivers Project Team

Timing Versus Magnitude: First-order Drivers of Water Availability Across Snow-Dominated, western North America (1875555)

Kate Hale, University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Wouter R Berghuijs, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Impacts of Climate Variability and Tillage Practices on Snow Observations and Hydrologic Responses in a Cold Region Agricultural Basin (1876215)

Tyson Jeannotte¹, Taufique H Mahmood¹ and Sharhad Wainty², (1)University of North Dakota, Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (2)University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States

Hydroclimatic Shifts and Flux Dynamics in a Cold Region Agricultural Basin (1876716)

Taufique H Mahmood, University of North Dakota, Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, Grand Forks, ND, United States and Sharhad Wainty, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States

Decoupling of Precipitation and Runoff: Explaining the Post‑2000 Hydrological Shift in the Colorado River Basin (1882027)

Xinyu Chen^1,2, Enrique R Vivoni^1,2, Zhaocheng Wang^1,2, Swastik Ghimire^3,4 and Upmanu Lall^5,6, (1)Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Center for Hydrologic Innovations, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, United States, (4)Arizona State University, Center for Hydrologic Innovations, Tempe, United States, (5)Arizona State University, Water Institute, Tempe, United States, (6)Arizona State University, School of Complex Adaptive Systems, Tempe, United States

Machine Learning and Data Assimilation for Enhanced Snow Estimates (1890287)

Devon R Dunmire, KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, Lucas Boeykens, Ghent University, Department of Environment, Gent, Belgium, Hans Lievens, Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Gent, Belgium, Michel Bechtold, KU Leuven, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Heverlee, Belgium and Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Dynamic Lapse Rate Corrections Improve Snowpack Modeling Across Mountain Regions Critical for Water Supply (1891983)

Kristen Marie Whitney^1,2, Sujay V Kumar³, David M Mocko⁴, Justin M. Pflug^3,5, John D Bolten⁶, Fadji Zaouna Maina^1,7, Melissa Wrzesien^2,3 and Christopher Hain⁸, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA GSFC/SAIC, Greenbelt, United States, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, (6)Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States, (7)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (8)NASA Marshall Space Flight Cetner, Huntsville, United States

Assessing the Impact of Snow Data Assimilation on Water and Energy Fluxes in Europe with the eCLM-PDAF Framework (1892304)

Buliao Guan¹, Lukas Strebel¹, Johannes Keller¹, Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen¹, Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy² and Bibi S Naz¹, (1)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany, (2)KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

The 'Snowflake Design': A New Experimental Plot Layout for Quantifying the Effects of Snow Capture on Soil Water and Crop Performance (1893700)

Simon Fordyce, Montana State University, Department of Research Centers, Moccasin, United States, Patrick Carr, Montana State University Central Agricultural Research Center, Research Centers, Moccasin, United States, Stephanie A Ewing, Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, United States, Samuel E Tuttle, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States and Eric A Sproles, Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, United States

Drivers of Spatial and Temporal Variability in Post-fire Snow Phenology (1895661)

William Keenan, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, UNITED STATES, Stephanie K Kampf, Colorado State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Daniel McGrath, Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States and Dave Barnard, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, United States

Hydrograph Spread Increases as Snow Declines Across the Western U.S. (1897475)

Adrienne Michelle Marshall, Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering, Golden, United States, Steven M Smith, Colorado School of Mines, Economics and Business, Golden, CO, United States, Kyla Bazlen, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States and Arielle Koshkin, Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science & Engineering, Golden, CO, United States

Snow Droughts Are Expanding And Deluges Are Shrinking: The Importance Of Spatial Extent In Snow Drought And Deluge Evaluation (1898678)

Arielle Koshkin¹, Adrienne Michelle Marshall², Alexa Toomey³, Elaine Wiles³ and Ben Livneh⁴, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science & Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering, Golden, United States, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States

Coupling iSnobal-HRRR and Sac-SMA in the Upper Colorado River Basin: Validation and Assessment (1900265)

Madison Muxworthy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, J Michelle Hu, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and S. McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, Salt Lake City, United States

Effects of Wildfire on the Magnitude and Timing of Snowmelt Runoff Following the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire in Northern Colorado (1902712)

Sushma Tiwari Chhetri, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, Colorado, UNITED STATES, Stephanie K Kampf, Colorado State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Daniel McGrath, Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States

Event-based Classification of Cold-region Fluvial Flooding in the Contiguous United States (1919501)

Megan Vardaman and Jennifer M Jacobs, University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, United States

Evaluating A New Approach For Streamflow Estimation Using Remotely Sensed Snowmelt Area (1923549)

Bareera Mirza¹, Eric E Small² and Mark S Raleigh¹, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States

A Machine Learning Approach to Water Supply Forecasting and Quantifying the Role of Snow Water Equivalent in Seasonal Streamflow Variability across the Western U.S. (1923617)

Haowen Yue, Yihan Wang, Lujun Zhang and Tiantian Yang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States

The Importance of Rain-on-Snow to the Contiguous United States (1926495)

Wyatt Reis, US Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States, Jeremy Giovando, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, Mike Bartles, USACE, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, United States and Travis A Dahl, US Army Corps of Engineers, ERDC-CHL, Vicksburg, United States

An Investigation into the Impact of Heatwaves on Snowpack in the Western U.S (1926693)

Ryan Gale, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States and Siwei He, Montana State University, Bozeman, United States

Toolbox for Low-Cost In-Situ Measurements of Evaposublimation (1928961)

Katharina Theresa Scheidt¹, Riccardo Barella², Rafael Pimentel¹, Valentina Premier², Carlo Marin², María José Polo¹ and Claudia Notarnicola², (1)University of Córdoba, Department of Agronomy, Fluvial Dynamics and Hydrology Research Group, Córdoba, Spain, (2)Eurac Research, Institute for Earth Observation, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

How Will Changes in Future Snowpack Affect Western U.S. Drought Prediction? (1929169)

Kaitlyn Bishay, University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States and Ben Livneh, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States

Global Products for Cold-Region Hydrological Modeling: Precipitation Phase Partitioning and Frozen Ground Status Prediction (1932876)

Donghui Li¹, Gabriele Villarini¹ and Alexander Michalek², (1)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering & High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, United States, (2)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States

From Snowpack to Streamflow: Assessing the Impact of SWE Dataset Choice on Runoff Simulations in Canadian Watersheds (1937564)

Chang Sun¹, Hongli Liu² and Jennifer Nafziger², (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of Alberta, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Isotope based snowmelt routing and transit time dynamics in the Suru and Shyok Basin, Western Himalaya (1942374)

Dr. Suhail Lone, M.sc, Ph.D, University of Kashmir, Department of Earth Sciences, Srinagar, India and Gh Jeelani, University of Kashmir, Earth Sciences, Srinagar, India

Driving Role of Snow Cover on Soil Moisture Storage and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalayan Catchments (1948606)

Ayush Bharti¹, Divyesh Varade² and Aliva Nanda¹, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mandi, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India, civil engineering, Jammu, India

Partitioning snowmelt contributions to Lake Superior water level changes with water isotopic tracers (1953978)

Ben G Kopec¹, Alden C Adolph², Fengjing Liu³, Trista J Vick-Majors⁴, Ana Dyreson⁵, Hayden Henderson⁶, Ara Hakim⁷, K M Shafi⁸, David Wallis⁵, David W Watkins Jr⁹, Pengfei Xue¹⁰ and Jeffrey M Welker¹¹, (1)Michigan Technological University, Great Lakes Research Center, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)Michigan Technological University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Engineering Fundamentals, Houghton, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Houghton, MI, United States, (4)Michigan Technological University, Department of Biological Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States, (5)Michigan Technological University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Houghton, United States, (6)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, United States, (7)Michigan Technological University, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering, Houghton, United States, (8)Michigan Technological University, Department of Biological Sciences, Houghton, United States, (9)Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, United States, (10)Michigan Technological University, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geospatial Engineering, Houghton, MI, United States, (11)University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Biological Sciences, Anchorage, United States

Post-Fire Flood Risks in Wildland-Urban Interfaces on the Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada (1955394)

Kabir Rasouli, Desert Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, United States and Thomas Chaney, University of Nevada Reno, Geography, Reno, United States

Assessing Impacts of Incorporating Atmospheric Profile Information in Rain–Snow Partitioning Parameterizations with Implications for Snowpack Modeling (1955561)

Shangyong Shi, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Dr. Cenlin He, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States

Assessing the Accuracy and Scalability of Using Lake Water Pressure to Measure Snow Water Equivalent (1955861)

Erich Schreier, Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States and Eric A Sproles, Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, United States

Climate Seasonality Effects on Current and Future Runoff Patterns and Snow Storage (1956059)

Jaehyeon Lee, University of Florida, Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Nathan Reaver, University of Florida, Water Institute, Gainesville, FL, United States, Harald Klammler, Federal University of Bahia, Department of Geophysics, Salvador, Brazil and James W Jawitz, University of Florida, Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences, Gainesville, United States

Extreme Snowfall at High Elevations: A Historical Analysis of Elevation-Dependent SWE Trends in a Warming Climate (1956605)

Sarah Ryu, Stefano Casirati and Manuela Girotto, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States

Quantifying Snowmelt Contribution to Streamflow and Water Balance Uncertainties in a Snow-Dominated Watershed Using WLDAS and Multi-Source Datasets (1962526)

Farhaan Cooverji¹, Dr. Eunsang Cho, Ph.D.², Bailing Li³, Carrie Vuyovich⁴, Jennifer M Jacobs⁵, Eunsaem Cho⁴, Samuel E Tuttle⁶ and Eric A Sproles⁷, (1)Texas State University San Marcos, San Marcos, TX, United States, (2)Texas State University, Department of Civil Engineering, San Marcos, United States, (3)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, United States, (6)Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, (7)Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, United States

Objective Rainfall–Runoff Separation in Snow-Affected Basins via an Enhanced DMCA-ESR Method (1971206)

Jian Shi, Hongli Liu and Ariana Smith, University of Alberta, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Comparative analysis of seasonal water supply forecasting performance in cold/seasonal vs. warm/ephemeral snowpack watersheds (1971844)

Ravindra Dwivedi¹, Patrick D Broxton², Cassie Zhang³, Xubin Zeng⁴, Guo-Yue Niu⁴ and Willem J D Van Leeuwen³, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States

Benchmarking the Accuracy of Existing Gridded SWE Datasets and Their Relative Value for Seasonal Runoff Prediction (1977579)

Ethan Ritchie¹, Andy Wood¹, Josh Sturtevant², Adrienne Michelle Marshall³, Emily LaMena¹, Ryan C Johnson⁴, Dane Liljestrand⁵ and Emily Golitzin⁴, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering, Golden, United States, (4)University of Utah, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Salt Lake City, United States, (5)University of Utah, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Influence of Snowpack Pattern Repeatability on Streamflow Forecast Skill (1979966)

Lena Nyblade¹, Mark S Raleigh² and Eric E Small¹, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States

Snow Modeling Method Comparison using HEC-HMS (1981402)

Mike Bartles, USACE, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, United States, Wyatt Reis, US Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States, Jeremy Giovando, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, Travis A Dahl, US Army Corps of Engineers, ERDC-CHL, Vicksburg, United States and Avital Breverman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, United States

What causes variability in how the fraction of precipitation that falls as snow impacts streamflow in the rain-snow-transition-zone? (1996589)

Jim P McNamara, Boise State University, Boise, United States and Andrew R Hedrick, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States

A multi-dataset evaluation of orographic precipitation enhancement and its role in shaping seasonal snow across the western U.S. (1996692)

Gillian Gallagher, University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States and Ben Livneh, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States

Statistically Downscaled High-Resolution NLDAS-2 Datasets Improves the Snow Water Equivalent over the Western US (1997188)

Aniket Gupta¹, Ali Behrangi¹, Mohammad Farmani² and Guo-Yue Niu¹, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States

Modeling streamflow effects from changing precipitation snow fraction in a mountainous watershed (1999492)

Jim P McNamara, Boise State University, Boise, United States, Jamie Turner, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, United States, Alejandro N Flores, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States and Andrew R Hedrick, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States

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