Primary Convener: Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners: Jesus Revuelto, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza, Spain, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States and Ernesto Trujillo, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Primary Liaison: Jeffrey S Deems, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs: Jeffrey S Deems, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Jesus Revuelto, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza, Spain
OSPA Liaison: Jesus Revuelto, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza, Spain
Adding Utility to Automated Snow Depth Measurements Across a Number of Remote Sites in Subarctic and Arctic Alaska (749287)
Robert Busey1, Jessica E Cherry2, Katrina E Bennett3, Elchin E Jafarov3,4, Bob Bolton1,5 and Cathy Jean Wilson6, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)National Weather Service, Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center, Anchorage, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Assessment of GNSS-based snow water equivalent derivation for operational use under different snowpack conditions (725143)
Achille Capelli1, Franziska Koch2, Patrick Henkel3, Markus Lamm3, Christoph Marty1 and Juerg Schweizer1, (1)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (2)BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute for Hydrology and Water Management, Vienna, Austria, (3)ANavS GmbH, Munich, Germany
Snowpack ripening and melt-freeze cycles on Grand Mesa, Colorado from field measurements and synthetic aperture radar (759785)
Jewell Lund, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Richard R Forster, Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Summer Rupper, University of Utah, Department of Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Elias J Deeb, CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States and Christopher A Hiemstra, US Army Corps of Engineers Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Understanding the impact of terrain and avalanche characteristics on the detection of avalanche debris in Sentinel-1 imagery (743242)
Zachary Keskinen, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, Karl Birkeland, US Forest Service, Bozeman, MT, United States, Markus Eckerstorfer, NORUT Northern Research Institute, Tromsø, Norway and Jordy Hendrikx, Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States
Effects of Wind Flow and Topography on Snow Distribution and Liquid Water Content in Mountain Snowpacks (751625)
Siobhan Ciafone, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Keith N Musselman, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Kate Hale, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography/INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Ryan Webb, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Satellite Remote Sensing of Extreme Snowpack Melting on Eagle Island, Antarctica (741241)
Andre Michon1,2, Alberto M Mestas-Nunez2,3, Hongjie Xie2,3, Zhiwei Wang4 and Stephen F Ackley2,3, (1)San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)NASA Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments (CAMEE), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Geological Sciences, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Guizhou Institute of Prataculture, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guizhou, China
Simulated and Observed Spatiotemporal Variations of Warming Caused Earlier Snow Melting in Northern High-Latitude Regions (702567)
Fengming Yuan1, Daniel M Ricciuto2, Min Xu3, Nathan Collier4, Xiaoying Shi2, Dali Wang1, Forrest M. Hoffman4, Peter E Thornton1 and Stan Wullschleger5, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Spatial Evolution of Snow Melt On the Arctic Coast: A Field Campaign in Utqiaġvik, Alaska (754902)
Anika Pinzner1, Phillip Raymond Wilson2, Matthew Sturm1, Jennifer Delamere3, Donald K Perovich4, Ema Mayo1 and Trevor Grams5, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geosciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Fairbanks, United States
Development of a lake snow intensity index for the Tug Hill Plateau of New York State (702267)
Arthur N Samel, Bowling Green State University, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Bowling Green, OH, United States, Adam Burnett, Colgate University, Geography, Hamilton, NY, United States, Justin J. Hartnett, State University of New York Oneonta, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Oneonta, NY, United States and Christopher Charles Karmosky, State University of New York Oneonta, Meteorology, Oneonta, NY, United States
Toward Improving Snowpack Prediction and Snow Cover Fraction Parameterization in Land Surface Models (774012)
Hoshin Vijai Gupta1, Yuan-Heng Wang2, Patrick D Broxton3, Yuanhao Fang1, Ali Behrangi1, Xubin Zeng1 and Guo-Yue Niu4, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)The University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Science, Tucson, United States, (3)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States