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 and sectors (i.e., climate dynamics, infrastructure, water management practices). This session welcomes all submissions addressing snow hydrology in natural and human systems, hydrological processes governing the snowpack, and their broad impacts. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: how the seasonal snowpack is partitioned between hydrologic storages and fluxes (e.g., sublimation, evapotranspiration, runoff, and soil moisture); how changes in precipitation phase and snowmelt characteristics (e.g., rate, timing, and amount) alter streamflow generation dynamics across scales and under historical and/or future conditions; and how extreme events and variability in snow-dominated regions affect the hydrologic cycle, the environment, resource management, and infrastructure.

• C - Cryosphere