H025
Applications in Snow Hydrology: Linking Seasonal Snow to Natural Processes and Society
Session ID#: 72507
Session Description:
Snow plays a critical role in the water and energy cycles; however, in-depth understanding of its role in natural and human systems has been limited by a lack of reliable observations. Advances in field measurements, remote sensing, and modeling capabilities are critical for linking snowpack information to broader processes and understanding how climate dynamics impact the historical/future water supply and infrastructure. This session invites submissions focusing on innovative approaches linking snow to broader fields that address important questions such as: How do extreme events and variability in snow affect the hydrologic cycle, environment, energy sector, resource management, infrastructure, etc.? What recent advancements in snow hydrology better inform these fields? How can these advances better characterize runoff and its linkage to other processes in cold regions? We welcome submissions connecting snow to water and energy cycles across various spatiotemporal scales pertaining to hazards, streamflow forecasting, hydropower, ecology, agriculture, etc.
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Index Terms:
0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
1860 Streamflow [HYDROLOGY]
1863 Snow and ice [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Laurie Huning, University of California, Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners: Ryan Webb, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Dongyue Li, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Graham A Sexstone, USGS Colorado Water Science Center Denver, Denver, CO, United States
Primary Liaison: Laurie Huning, University of California, Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Transitioning from Snowfall to Rainfall: Impacts of Climate Change on Spatial Patterns of Precipitation and Water Resource Management (492622)
Melissa Wrzesien1, Tamlin Pavelsky1, Jonathan S Cohen2 and Jonathan D Herman3, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)UC Davis, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States
Can remote sensing transform our use of snowmelt resources? (Invited) (495820)
Jeff Dozier1, Thomas H Painter2 and Timbo Stillinger1, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)UCLA, JIFRESSE, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The boon and bane of natural water storage in mountains (508829)
Alan Rhoades, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, Paul Aaron Ullrich, Univ California Davis, Fremont, CA, United States and Colin M. Zarzycki, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Impacts of changes to snow accumulation and melt regimes on the streamflow of regulated and unregulated rivers in the upper North Saskatchewan and Athabasca river basins (510987)
Brandi Newton, Alberta Environment and Parks, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division, Calgary, AB, Canada, Cristina Buendia-Fores, Alberta Environment and Parks, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Craig Emmerton, Alberta Environment and Parks, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division, Edmonton, Canada
Developing a New Snow Cover Fraction Scheme for Hydrological Predictions (529481)
Yuan-Heng Wang1, Yuanhao Fang1, Patrick D Broxton2, Ali Behrangi1, Xubin Zeng1, Hoshin Vijai Gupta1 and Guo-Yue Niu1, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
A Framework to Delineate Precipitation-Runoff Regimes: Precipitation vs. Snowpack in the Western U.S. (546832)
Xiaodong Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, Richland, WA, United States, Zhuoran Duan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Hydrology, Richland, WA, United States; University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Mark S Wigmosta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, WA, United States
Seasonal Snow Storage Modifies the Timing and Magnitude of Streamflow in the Western U.S. (554683)
Mackenzie Kohler, University of Nevada, Reno, Roseville, CA, United States, Paul D Brooks, University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
What is the fate of snowmelt water in the Colorado Rocky Mountains? (Invited) (558485)
Stephanie K Kampf1, Abby Eurich1, John Christopher Hammond1, Ben Livneh2, Kira Puntenney3, Gigi A Richard4, Joel Sholtes5 and Hannah Harrison6, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Colorado Mesa University, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Grand Junction, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Ft Collins, CO, United States, (6)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
Long-term Hydrological Response of Snow-influenced Upland Watersheds across California’s Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains Under a Changing Climate (568224)
Zhu Liu, University of California-Davis, Land, Air and Water Resource, Davis, CA, United States, Helen E Dahlke, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States, Guobiao Huang, State of California, Sacramento, CA, United States, Tariq Kadir, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, United States, Ned Bair, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Jeff Dozier, University of California, Mammoth Lakes, CA, United States
Water isotope (18O & 2H) profiles in Arctic seasonal snowpack provides a proxy moisture source record (576436)
Pertti Ala-aho1, Hannu Marttila1, Moein Mellat2, Hannah Bailey2, Eric S Klein3, Stine Højlund Pedersen4 and Jeffrey M Welker5, (1)University of Oulu, Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, Oulu, Finland, (2)University of Oulu, Ecology and Genetics Research Unit, Oulu, Finland, (3)University of Alaska Anchorage, Geological Sciences, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Biological Sciences, Anchorage, United States, (5)University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Biological Sciences, Anchorage, AK, United States
The Future of Snow: High Resolution Snow Projections for the Continental United States Under Lower and Higher Climate Forcing (582358)
Elizabeth A Burakowski, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Colin M. Zarzycki, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Alan Rhoades, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Danielle S Grogan, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States and Alexandra Contosta, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Durham, NH, United States
Investigation hydrologic responses to rain-on-snow events in the western United States (594563)
Weiwei Ren, Utah State University, Logan, United States; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;, Beijing, China, Ruijie Zeng, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States and Tao Yang, Hohai University, Nan Jing, China
Snowpack and Drought Monitoring on the Navajo Nation Using NASA Earth Observations (597941)
AnnaClaire Marley, University of California Santa Barbara, San Jose, California, United States, Amber Jean Kuss McCullum, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA/ARC, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Carlee McClellan, Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources, Water Management Branch, Fort Defiance, AZ, United States
Monitoring the Sierra Nevada's water balance and deficits using GPS-derived vertical displacement time series data (601846)
Keith N Musselman, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Henry T Berglund, GPS Solutions Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, Kehan Yang, University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Geography, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States and Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Retrospective Seasonal Streamflow Simulations using WRF-Hydro at Lake George, New York (604835)
Mukul Tewari1, Campbell Watson1, Alvaro Bueno Buoro2, Vincent W Moriarty1 and Lloyd A. Treinish1, (1)IBM Research USA, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, (2)IBM Research Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Snow is important for water management: a survey of Reclamation snow projects (604948)
Lindsay A Bearup1, Daniel Broman1, Subhrendu Gangopadhyay1, Jeffrey Niehaus2 and Kenneth Nowak3, (1)Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (2)Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Denver, United States, (3)Bureau of Reclamation, Research and Development Office, Denver, CO, United States
Tangible use of Airborne Snow Observatory SWE Products for enhanced runoff forecasting (615427)
Kat Bormann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Patrick R Kormos, NOAA Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, Salt Lake City, ID, United States, John Lhotak, NOAA Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, William P Miller, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, Seth Shanahan, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas, NV, United States, Jeffery Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States and Thomas H Painter, UCLA, JIFRESSE, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Inclusion of Snowpack in the CPC Leaky Bucket Model for Soil Moisture Monitoring (617299)
Jorge Arevalo1, Joshua Welty2, Xubin Zeng1 and Yun Fan3, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Climate Prediction Center College Park, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States
Effects of Climate Forcing Uncertainty on Snow Modeling and Streamflow Prediction in a Mountainous Karst Watershed (623878)
Qianqiu Longyang1, Conor Tyson1, Tianfang Xu1,2, Ruijie Zeng1 and Bethany T Neilson1, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
Taking a watershed’s temperature: Tracking snowmelt and runoff source areas through space and time with thermal imagery (624523)
Cole Green-Smith1, Fabian Nippgen1 and Shannon Edward Albeke2, (1)University of Wyoming, Ecosystem Science and Management, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, Laramie, WY, United States
Biogeochemical Dynamics During Snow Cover in a Montane Grassland Stream (627384)
Justin Nichols1, Aashish Khandelwal1, Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon1, Peter Regier1, David J Van Horn2, Madelaine Griesel1, Ruendy Castillo1, Daniel James Griesel1 and Jancoba Dorley1, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)University of New Mexico, Biology, Albuquerque, NM, United States
