C32A:
Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Variability of Snow and Snow Processes I

Session ID#: 4809

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3005 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States and Ernesto Trujillo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey S Deems, Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Mammoth Lakes, United States
Co-conveners:  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
OSPA Liaison:  Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0742 Avalanches [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0798 Modeling [CRYOSPHERE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

C32A-01
Trends in Snow Cover in the Continental United States (1950-2010) (28315)
Noah Knowles, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
C32A-02
Creating a United States Snowfall Regionalization Based on Frequency (30345)
Daria Kluver, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States
C32A-03
Snowfall variability as seen by a weather radar (Invited) (4161)
Alexis Berne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland
C32A-04
The NASA Airborne Snow Observatory: Demonstration Mission 2 (Invited) (28656)
Thomas H Painter1, Daniel F Berisford2, Joseph W Boardman3, Kat J Bormann2, Jeffrey S Deems4, Frank Gehrke5, Jason Horn1, Danny G Marks6, Chris A Mattmann2, Bruce J McGurk7, Paul Ramirez1, Megan J Richardson1, McKenzie Skiles8, Adam H Winstral9 and Paul Zimdars2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Airborne Snow Observatories Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Mammoth Lakes, United States, (5)State of California, Sacramento, CA, United States, (6)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (7)Self Employed, McGurk Hydrologic, Washington, DC, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
C32A-05
Snow surface temperature, radiative forcing and snow depth as determinants of snow density (29440)
Peter B. Kirchner, University of California Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth Systems Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, McKenzie Skiles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Jeffrey S Deems, Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Mammoth Lakes, United States
C32A-06
Using regional-scale LiDAR surveys to validate operational snow models (Invited) (25814)
Andrew R Hedrick, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Boise, ID, United States, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, Kelly Elder, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, United States, Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Donald W Cline, Office of Hydrologic Development, Hydrology Laboratory, NOAA-NWS, Silver Spring, MD, United States
C32A-07
Development of Snow Movement over Open Terrain for Hydrology (SMOOTH) model (31126)
Noriaki Ohara, University of Wyoming, Civil and Architectural Engineering, Laramie, WY, United States
C32A-08
Non-linear Bio-geophysical and Remote Sensing Relations Revealed in Neural Network Training for Fractional Snow Cover Estimation (29013)
Elzbieta Halina Czyzowska-Wisniewski, Willem J D Van Leeuwen, Stuart E Marsh, Katherine K Hirschboeck and Wit T Wisniewski, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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