Chairs: Jordy Hendrikx, Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, Danny G Marks, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States and Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Primary Convener: Danny G Marks, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Co-conveners: Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, Edward Bair, University of California, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Jordy Hendrikx, Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States
OSPA Liaison: Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Mapping starting zone snow depth with a ground-based LiDAR to improve avalanche control and forecasting (Invited) (23287)
Jeffrey S Deems1, Peter J Gadomski2, Dominic Vellone3, Ryan Evanczyk3, Adam L LeWinter4, Karl Birkeland5 and David C Finnegan6, (1)Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Mammoth Lakes, United States, (2)US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Arapahoe Basin Ski Patrol, Dillon, CO, United States, (4)Univ Northern Colorado, Denver, CO, United States, (5)US Forest Service, National Avalanche Center, Bozeman, MT, United States, (6)US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States
Modeling and monitoring avalanches caused by rain-on-snow events (Invited) (28733)
Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Scott Havens, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, Gabriel O Trisca, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, Jeffrey Bruce Johnson, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, United States and Bill Nicholson, Idaho Transportation Department, Avalanche Forecasting Program, Lowman, ID, United States
Sensitivity of Alpine Snow and Streamflow Regimes to Climate Changes (Invited) (3166)
Kabir Rasouli1, John W Pomeroy1, Danny G Marks2 and Matthias Bernhardt3, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (3)LMU, Geography, 80333 Munich, Germany
Quantifying the accuracy of snow water equivalent estimates using broadband radar signal phase (Invited) (6199)
Elias J Deeb, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Nathan J Lamie, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States and Steven A Arcone, Dartmouth College, Thayer School, Hanover, NH, United States
How Much Water is in That Snowpack? Improving Basin-wide Snow Water Equivalent Estimates from the Airborne Snow Observatory (Invited) (5870)
Kat J Bormann1, Thomas H Painter1, Danny G Marks2, Peter B. Kirchner3, Adam H Winstral4, Paul Ramirez5, Cameron E Goodale5, Megan J Richardson5 and Daniel F Berisford1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth Systems Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
