Studying the impacts of dust emission and dust deposition on snow over the Upper Colorado River Basin using the WRF-Chem-CTSM coupled framework

Jiaxuan Cai1, Saroj Dhital2, Nicholas Webb2, McKenzie Skiles3, Patrick Naple4, Travis Nauman5, Michael Duniway6, Sandra LeGrand7, Theodore Letcher8 and Nathaniel W. Chaney1, (1)Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, (2)USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, United States, (3)University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, United States, (4)University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Monticello, United States, (6)US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States, (7)US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Geospatial Research Laboratory, Alexandria, United States, (8)US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States