C068
Modeling of the Cryosphere: Seasonal Snow I

Thursday, 17 December 2020: 04:00-05:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Mark S Raleigh, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, Tobias Jonas, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland and Vincent Vionnet, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Environmental Numerical Prediction Research, Dorval, QC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Chairs:  Vincent Vionnet, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Environmental Numerical Prediction Research, Dorval, QC, Canada, Mark S Raleigh, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Tobias Jonas, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland and Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
OSPA Liaison:  Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
04:00
Welcoming Remarks
04:04
C068-01
Multi-scale Snow-Atmosphere Interactions Over Mountain Snowpack for Climate Applications (Invited) (681654)
Ethan D Gutmann1, Kristi R Arsenault2, Carrie Vuyovich2, Glen E Liston3, Adele Reinking4, Alessandro Fanfarillo5, Andrew James Newman6, Jessica D Lundquist7, Barton A Forman8, Shugong Wang9, Melissa Wrzesien2 and Jeffrey Richard Arnold10, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (9)Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)US Army Corps of Engineers, Climate Preparedness and Resilience Program, Seattle, WA, United States
04:08
Q&A Discussion
04:11
C068-02
Improvements to an intermediate complexity atmospheric model for high-resolution downscaling in very complex terrain. (733082)
Dylan Reynolds1, Bert Kruyt1, Ethan D Gutmann2, Tobias Jonas3, Michael Lehning4 and Rebecca Mott1, (1)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (4)WSL/SLF and EPFL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
04:15
Q&A Discussion
04:18
C068-03
Can we propagate informations from sparse snowpack observations into space using a Particle Filter? (Invited) (680728)
Bertrand Cluzet1, Matthieu Lafaysse1, Emmanuel Cosme2, Clement Albergel3, Marie Dumont1 and Louis-François Meunier3, (1)Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d’Études de la Neige, Grenoble, France, (2)UGA-CNRS-IRD, IGE, IGE, Grenoble, France, (3)CNRM UMR 3589, Météo-France/CNRS, Toulouse, France
04:22
Q&A Discussion
04:25
C068-04
Real Results with Simulated Data: OSSE Experiments with Data Assimilation of Snow Depth at Basin Scales Inform Mission Design (741261)
Eric Smyth, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Eric E Small, Univ of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Mark S Raleigh, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
04:29
Q&A Discussion
04:32
C068-05
Spatial Snowdrift Modeling using the Snow Movement Over Open Terrain for Hydrology (SMOOTH) model (717280)
Noriaki Ohara1, Siwei He2, Andy Parsekian2, Benjamin M Jones3, Rodrigo Correa Rangel2, Ian Nichols4 and Kenneth M Hinkel5, (1)University of Wyoming, Civil and Architectural Engineering, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, (5)University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
04:36
Q&A Discussion
04:39
C068-06
Snow dune growth increases polar heat fluxes (774827)
Kelly Kochanski, University of Colorado - Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Robert S Anderson, INSTAAR and Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
04:43
Q&A Discussion
04:46
C068-07
Snow Profile Alignment and Similarity Assessment for Aggregating, Clustering, and Evaluating of Snowpack Model Output for Avalanche Forecasting (733496)
Florian Herla1, Simon Horton1, Patrick Mair2 and Pascal Haegeli1, (1)Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, (2)Harvard University, Dept. Psychology, Cambridge, MA, United States
04:50
Q&A Discussion
04:53
C068-08
Coupled Modelling of Water Fluxes and Electrical Self Potential in Melting Snow (695619)
Alex Priestley, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, Richard Essery, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Bernd Kulessa, Swansea University, College of Science, Swansea, United Kingdom
04:57
Q&A Discussion
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