C43D:
Recent Advances in Monitoring, Measuring, and Modeling Snow Processes II Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Adam H Winstral, USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States, Danny G Marks, USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States and Jordy Hendrikx, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Primary Conveners:  Danny G Marks, USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States
Co-conveners:  Adam H Winstral, USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States, Ned Bair, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Jordy Hendrikx, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Adam H Winstral, USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

0411
 
Snow Water Equivalent Reanalysis Over a Scarce Data Region Via Assimilation of Snow Covered Area from Landsat 5, 7 and 8
Gonzalo Cortés, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Manuela Girotto, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Steven A Margulis, UCLA, Los Angeles, AP, United States
0412
 
Optimization of Sensor Placements Using Machine Learning and LIDAR data: a Case Study for a Snow Monitoring Network in the Sierra Nevada.
Carlos Oroza1, Zeshi Zheng1, Steven D Glaser1, Roger C Bales2 and Martha H Conklin3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Univ California, Merced, CA, United States, (3)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
0413
 
Airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral mapping of snow depth and albedo in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Colorado, USA by the NASA JPL Airborne Snow Observatory
Jeffrey S Deems, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
0414
 
Revisiting Runoff Model Calibration: Airborne Snow Observatory Results Allow Improved Modeling Results
Bruce J McGurk, McGurk Hydrologic, Orinda, CA, United States and Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
0415
 
Snow Depth from Lidar: Challenges and New Technology for Measurements in Extreme Terrain
Daniel F Berisford1, Vladimir Kadatskiy2, Joseph W Boardman3, Kat Bormann4, Jeffrey S Deems5, Cameron E Goodale1, Chris A Mattmann6, Paul Ramirez1, Megan Richardson1 and Thomas H Painter1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Riegl USA, Orlando, FL, United States, (3)Analytical Imaging and Geophysics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of New South Wales, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
0416
 
An Evaluation of Vegetation Filtering Algorithms for Improved Snow Depth Estimation from Point Cloud Observations in Mountain Environments
Benjamin J Vanderjagt1, Michael T Durand2, Arko Lucieer3 and Luke Wallace3, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)University of Tasmania, Geography & Environmental Studies, Hobart, Australia
0417
 
Cross-sites analysis of snowpack depth from LiDAR in Southern Sierra Nevada
Zeshi Zheng, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Peter B. Kirchner, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Roger C Bales, Univ California, Merced, CA, United States and Steven D Glaser, Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States
0418
 
The information content of terrestial LIDAR images with respect to different snow cover processes
Matthias Bernhardt1, Karsten Schulz2 and Stefan Härer1,2, (1)LMU, Geography, 80333 Munich, Germany, (2)BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Water Managment, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vienna, Austria
0419
 
Quantifying Snow Volume Uncertainty from Repeat Terrestrial Laser Scanning Observations
Preston J Hartzell1, Peter J Gadomski2, David C Finnegan2, Craig L Glennie1 and Jeffrey S Deems3, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
0420
 
Design, implementation and hydrologic evaluation of a snow-measurement network using wireless sensors in the American River basin of California
Robert Rice1, Roger C Bales2, Danny G Marks3, Martha H Conklin1, Ziran Zhang4 and Steven D Glaser5, (1)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)Univ California, Merced, CA, United States, (3)USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Richmond, CA, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
0421
 
In situ monitoring and machine modeling of snowpack evolution in complex terrains
Jeff Frolik and Christian Skalka, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
0422
 
Simultaneous Estimation of Depth, Density, and Water Equivalent of Snow using a Mobile GPR Setup
Tobias Jonas, Nena Griessinger and Saskia Gindraux, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
0423
 
Acoustic Wave Propagation in Snow Based on a Biot-Type Porous Model
Rolf Sidler, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
0424
 
Estimating snow-water equivalent (SWE) over long mountain transects with snowmobile-mounted GPR
W Steven Holbrook1, Matthew Provart1, Scott N Miller1 and Mine Dogan2, (1)Univ Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
0425
 
Improvements in simulating liquid water flow in snow using Richards Equation
Nander Wever1, Charles G Fierz1 and Michael Lehning1,2, (1)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (2)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
0426
 
Ground Penetrating Radar for Measuring Snow Water Equivalent in Wet Snow
Mark Robertson and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
0427
 
Understanding Mountain Range Spatial Variability of Surface Hoar
Jordy Hendrikx, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
0428
 
Ground Based In-situ Measurements of Snowfall with a 2D-Video Distrometer on Mt. Zugspitze, Germany
Felix Bernauer1, Martin Schwinzerl2, Kerstin Huerkamp1 and Jochen Tschiersch1, (1)Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Neuherberg D-85764, Germany, (2)Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria
0429
 
Snow Never Falls on Satellite Radiometers: A Compelling Alternative to Ground Observations
Laura M Hinkelman, Karl E Lapo, Nicoleta C Cristea and Jessica D Lundquist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
0430
 
Assimilating Spaceborne Passive Microwave Measurements into a Land Surface Model to Estimate Snow Water Equivalent in the Yampa River Basin
Rhae-Sung Kim, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Dongyue Li, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States and Michael T Durand, Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
0431
 
Evaluating Mesoscale Numerical Weather Predictions and Spatially Distributed Meteorologic Forcing Data for Developing Accurate SWE Forecasts over Large Mountain Basins
Andrew R Hedrick1, Danny G Marks1, Adam H Winstral1 and Hans-Peter Marshall2, (1)USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
0432
 
The Cycles of Snow Cover in Pyrenees Mountain and Mont Lebanon Analyzed Using the Global Modeling Technique.
Laurent Drapeau1,2, Sylvain Mangiarotti1,2, Flavie Le Jean2, Simon Gascoin2 and Lionel Jarlan2, (1)IRD Institute for Research and Development, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (2)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
0433
 
MODIS Data and Services at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Molly McAllister, Lisa Booker, Douglas K Fowler and Terence M Haran, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
0434
 
Establishing Transferable Sub-Pixel Relationships for Estimating Snow Depth from Remotely-Sensed Snow Covered Area and Terrain Variability
Dominik Schneider and Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
0435
 
Discrepancies between two measurements and two model approaches for liquid water flow in snow
Lino Schmid1, Nander Wever1, Achim Heilig2, Charles G Fierz1 and Michael Lehning3, (1)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (2)University of Heidelberg, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, (3)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
0436
 
Extreme icing event in snowpack at High Arctic site
Jack Kohler, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
0437
 
Measuring Wind Ventilation of Dense Surface Snow
Stephen A. Drake1, Hendrik Huwald2, John S Selker1, Chad W Higgins1, Michael Lehning2 and Christoph K Thomas3, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (3)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
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