H031
Atmosphere-through-Bedrock Observations, Modeling, and Science in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Session ID#: 159099

Session Description:
The Upper Colorado River Basin is experiencing significant hydrometeorological and hydroclimatological changes, driven by atmospheric, surface, and subsurface processes that interact over a wide range of spatiotemporal scales.  To better understand these processes and their interactions, multiple overlapping field campaigns are advancing atmosphere-through-bedrock process science through targeted, collocated observations in Colorado’s East River watershed.  The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Surface-Atmosphere Integrated field Laboratory (SAIL), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Study of Precipitation, the Lower Atmosphere, and Surface for Hydrometeorology (SPLASH), and the NSF-supported Sublimation of Snow (SoS) campaign, in conjunction with longstanding canopy-to-bedrock observations and modeling activities of DOE’s Watershed Function SFA are all focused on this emblematic headwaters watershed.  Contributions are solicited that use observations collected through SAIL, SPLASH, SOS, and the Watershed Function SFA, or otherwise explore, analyze, and develop insights into hydrological and hydrometeorological processes in this basin and/or similar headwaters systems.
Co-Organized:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • C - Cryosphere
Index Terms:

1863 Snow and ice [HYDROLOGY]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]
1879 Watershed [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Gijs de Boer, NOAA, Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Jessica D Lundquist, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States and Kenneth Hurst Williams, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
Drivers of snowpack spatial variability in the East River, Colorado: Insights from remote sensing and physically-based modeling (Invited) (1074504)
Mark S Raleigh, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Gabriela Celeste Collao-Barrios, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States and Jeffrey S Deems, ASO Inc, Boulder, United States
 
From Snowflake to Snowpack: Examining the Consequences of Cloud Microphysical Representations for Hydrologic Uncertainty (Invited) (1079173)
Alejandro N Flores1, William J Rudisill2, Rosemary W H Carroll3, Daniel Feldman4, Hans-Peter Marshall1, Jim P McNamara5, Annareli Morales6, Alan Rhoades4, Allison Nicole Vincent2, Erica R Siirila-Woodburn7 and Zexuan Xu8, (1)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Boise State Univ, Boise, United States, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)Organization Not Listed, Washington, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
Studying Orography-Influenced Riming and Secondary Ice Production and Their Effects on Precipitation Rates Using Radar Polarimetry and Radar Doppler Spectra (1102504)
Isabelle Steinke, Anton Kötsche, Maximilian Maahn and Heike Kalesse-Los, University of Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany
 
Observations of blowing snow at SAIL/SPLASH (1108079)
Aaron D Kennedy, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States
 
Dual Doppler Analysis Results from the SPLASH – SAIL Radar Network (1116588)
V. V Chandrasekar1, Patrick Kennedy1 and Robert Cifelli2, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (2)NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
 
How do dust and marine aerosols impact snow precipitation over the western US mountainous region? (1124709)
Jiwen Fan1, Yun Lin1, Pengfei Li2, L. Ruby Leung3 and Paul J DeMott4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (2)China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
 
Exploring the Properties of Supermicron and Bioaerosol Events duringthe Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign (1127640)
Abu Sayeed Md Shawon, Allison C Aiken, Katherine Benedict, Kyle Gorkowski, John Stewart Bilberry and Juarez Viegas, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, United States
 
Quantifying Uncertainties in an Atmosphere-through-Bedrock Integrated Process Model in the Upper Colorado River Basin (1130750)
Zexuan Xu1, Erica R Siirila-Woodburn2, Alan Rhoades3 and Daniel Feldman3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Developing a New Long-Term Soil Moisture Observing Network in the Upper Yampa River Basin (1135491)
Kerstin Paulsson1, F Martin Ralph2, Anna Maria Wilson3, Edwin Sumargo4, Nicole Pepper5, Madison Muxworthy5, Michelle Stewart6, Tim Sullivan5, Nathan Stewart7, Robert Hartman8, Ming Pan9 and Mu Xiao10, (1)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, United States, (5)Yampa Valley Sustainability Council, Steamboat Springs, United States, (6)Yampa Valley Sustainability Council, Steamboat Springs, CO, United States, (7)Colorado Mountain College, Steamboat Springs, United States, (8)Robert K. Hartman Consulting Associates, Roseville, United States, (9)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, San Diego, United States, (10)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
 
Wintertime Precipitation Estimation in the East River Watershed of the Colorado Mountains Using X-Band Radar During SPLASH and SAIL Experiments (1139896)
Sounak Biswas, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engr., Fort Collins, CO, United States, Robert Cifelli, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Radar Observations of Precipitation During SPLASH (1153870)
Robert Cifelli1, V Chandrasekar2, Allen B White1 and Sounak Kumar Biswas3, (1)NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States
 
Measurements of Non-refractory Submicron Aerosol Composition and Other Aerosol Properties at a High-Altitude Site in Colorado River Basin (1154482)
Maria A Zawadowicz1, Chongai Kuang2, Uin Janek2, Ashish Singh3, Rebecca Trojanowski3, Arthur J Sedlacek III3 and Olga L Mayol-Bracero4, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environment and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (4)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environment and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, New York, United States
 
Role of Dissolved Natural Organic Matter in Metal Speciation and Mobility in East River Watershed, Colorado (1158133)
Wenming Dong1, Kenneth Hurst Williams1, Patricia M Fox1, Peter S Nico2, Lucien Stolze3 and Carl I Steefel4, (1)Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area,, Berkeley, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Low-level liquid bearing clouds drive lower atmosphere stability and radiative forcing in a seasonally snow-covered high-mountain watershed environment (1163249)
Joseph Sedlar, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States
 
Exploring the Role of Soil Moisture in Seasonal Streamflow Forecast over the Upper Colorado River Basin (1166758)
Mu Xiao, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Ming Pan, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, San Diego, United States; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Center For Western Weather and Water Extremes, San Diego, United States, Robert Hartman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Center For Western Weather and Water Extremes, San Diego, CA, United States, Hilary K McMillan, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States, Edwin Sumargo, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, United States, Anna Maria Wilson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States, Kerstin Paulsson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States and F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Surveying the First Year of SAIL Data and Formulating Hypotheses for its Second Year (1169755)
Daniel Feldman1, Allison C Aiken2, Curtis A Beutler3, William R Boos4, Rosemary W H Carroll5, V. Chandrasekar6, Scott M Collis7, Jessie Creamean8, Gijs deBoer9, Jeffery Deems10, Paul J DeMott8, Jiwen Fan11, Alejandro N Flores12, David Gochis13, Anna Lily Hodshire14, Ezra JT Levin15, L. Ruby Leung16, Alexander Newman3, Mark S Raleigh17, Alan Rhoades1, William J Rudisill18, Erica R Siirila-Woodburn19, McKenzie Skiles20, James N Smith21, Adam Varble22, Kenneth Hurst Williams23 and Zexuan Xu1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, (5)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (8)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (9)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Airborne Snow Observatories Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (12)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (13)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (14)Handix Scientific, Fort Collins, United States, (15)Handix Scientific, Boulder, United States, (16)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States, (17)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (18)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (19)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (20)University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, United States, (21)UC Irvine, Chemistry, Irvine, CA, United States, (22)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (23)Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
Chemical Characterization of Brown Carbon in Atmosphere and Snowpack from the Colorado Rockies. (1172870)
Steven Sharpe1, Felipe A. Rivera-Adorno1, Jay Mendoza Tomlin1, Erik Hulm2, Ryan Moffet3 and Alexander Laskin1, (1)Purdue University, Department of Chemistry, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, United States, (3)Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, United States
 
X-Band Radar Precipitation Estimates for the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Field Experiment (1174867)
Joseph Robert O'Brien1, Maxwell Grover1, Scott M Collis1, Adam Theisen2, Robert Clyde Jackson1, Zachary Sherman3, Daniel Feldman4 and Matthew Tuftedal3, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
The Study of Precipitation, the Lower Atmosphere and Surface for Hydrometeorology (SPLASH) -- Outcomes from the first year of observations (1179007)
Gijs de Boer1, Allen B White2, Robert Cifelli2, Tilden P Meyers3, Kathleen O Lantz4, Janet M Intrieri5, Erik Hulm6, Mimi Hughes7, Kelly M Mahoney8, Jack Steward Elston9, Jonathan Hamilton10, Joseph Sedlar11, Jennifer Reithel12, Laura Riihimaki13, Darren L Jackson14, Annareli Morales8, Bianca Adler15, William Ryan Currier16, Laura Bianco5, James M Wilczak17, James O Pinto18, Mike Meyers19, Maciej Stachura20, Anders A Jensen21, Elizabeth Smith22, Robert Stabler Webb23 and Michael Gallagher24, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA OAR Air Resources Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, United States, (7)NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (9)Black Swift Technologies, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (12)RMBL, Crested Butte, United States, (13)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (14)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (17)NOAA/OAR/PSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (18)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (19)NOAA, Unknown, United States, (20)Black Swift Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (21)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (22)NOAA, Norman, United States, (23)NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (24)CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA PSL, Boulder, CO, United States
 
SAIL-NET: Investigating spatial variability of aerosol and cloud nuclei in mountainous terrain (1188638)
Anna L Hodshire1, Ezra JT Levin2, Gavin R McMeeking1, Benjamin Swanson3, Bryan J Rainwater1, Ethan Walker Emerson4, Nicholas Good5, Katherine Patterson3 and Tom Ramin3, (1)Handix Scientific, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Handix Scientific, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
 
Multi-year characterization of land surface energy and water fluxes from a mid-continent, high elevation, riparian area (1198341)
David Gochis, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Anna Ryken, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Reed M Maxwell, Princeton University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, United States, Justin Lentz, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Kenneth Hurst Williams, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
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