C032
Recent Advances in Monitoring, Measuring, and Modeling Snow Processes
Session ID#: 71588
Session Description:
The storage and modulated release of water from seasonal snowcover are major components of hydrologic systems in many parts of the world, particularly in mountainous and boreal areas. In these regions, the seasonal snowcover is a critical component of the annual water cycle, controlling soil moisture, soil temperature, streamflow, and the development and stability of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Because snow-dominated regions will be strongly affected by climate warming in the near future, we must advance our understanding of these systems. The session will focus on snowcover physical properties, patterns and dynamics, scaling, remote sensing, and developing measurement techniques.
Index Terms:
0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0794 Instruments and techniques [CRYOSPHERE]
0798 Modeling [CRYOSPHERE]
Primary Convener: Andrew R Hedrick, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Conveners: Danny G Marks, Scott Havens and Ernesto Trujillo, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Primary Liaison: Andrew R Hedrick, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Quantifying the Impacts of a Needleleaf Canopy on the Physical Properties of the Snowpack at the Local Scale (494737)
Benjamin Bouchard1,2, Daniel Nadeau1,2 and Florent Domine3, (1)Laval University, Civil and Water Engineering, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (2)CentrEau - Water Research Center, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (3)Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Investigating forest cover effects on snow accumulation and ablation processes using SLAM-enabled, mobile terrestrial LiDAR (497611)
Cydne Rae Potter, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Kim Green, Selkirk College Applied Research Center, Castlegar, BC, Canada, Daniel L Peters, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada and Olaf Niemann, University of Victoria, Department of Geography, Victoria, BC, Canada
Rainfall and snow statistics in the UK (505913)
Sana Salous1, Yusheng Cao2 and Jie Huang2, (1)Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)Durham University, Engineering, Durham, United Kingdom
Examining multi-scale snow vegetation relationships using object-derived measures of canopy structure from terrestrial laser scanning, Grand Mesa, Colorado (518622)
Ahmad Hojatimalekshah1, Zachary Uhlmann2, Nancy F Glenn3, Lucas Spaete4, Christopher A Hiemstra5, Christopher Tennant6, Arthur Gelvin5, Hans-Peter Marshall3, Jim P McNamara3, Josh Enterkine3 and Jake Graham3, (1)Boise State University, Department of Computer Science, Boise, ID, United States, (2)USDA-ARS Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (4)Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Grand Rapids, United States, (5)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento, United States
Satellite-based snow persistence maps for SNOTEL site characterization (559962)
Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Mark S Raleigh, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, David Selkowitz, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, Frank Kugel, Upper Gunnison River Water Concervancy District, Gunnison, CO, United States, Rosemary W H Carroll, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Angus Graham Goodbody, Natural Resource Conservation Service, Portland, United States and Joe Busto, Colorado Water Conservation Board, Denver, CO, United States
The future of snow science: Spatial data assimilation and modeling in mountain regions (560073)
Danny G Marks1, Scott Havens1, Andrew R Hedrick1, Ernesto Trujillo1, Frederick B. Pierson1, Jeffery Deems2, S. Mckenzie Skiles3, Kat Bormann4, Mark Robertson1, Hans-Peter Marshall5 and Thomas H Painter6, (1)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (2)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Utah�, Salt Lake City, United States, (4)University of New South Wales, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Impacts of improved cryospheric surface shortwave radiative transfer scheme SNICAR-AD on fully-coupled Earth system simulations (569598)
Cheng Dang1, Charles S Zender2, Mark Flanner3, Yun Qian4, Hailong Wang4, Qi Tang5 and Adrian K Turner6, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Local Radiation Maxima in Snow-Covered Mountains and its Influence on PV Winter Production (576007)
Michael Lehning1, Felix von Rütte2, Jérôme Dujardin3 and Annelen Kahl2, (1)WSL/SLF and EPFL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (2)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (3)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Evaluation of Coherence Properties of Signals of Opportunity for Snow Measurement (622535)
Rashmi Shah, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ian Collett, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Xiaolan Xu, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States and Simon H Yueh, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
