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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States and Ernesto Trujillo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Primary Conveners:  Jeffrey S Deems, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States and Ernesto Trujillo, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland
OSPA Liaisons:  Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
C32A-01
 
Trends in Snow Cover in the Continental United States (1950-2010)
Noah Knowles, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
10:35 AM
C32A-02
 
Creating a United States Snowfall Regionalization Based on Frequency
Daria Kluver, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States
10:50 AM
C32A-03
 
Snowfall variability as seen by a weather radar
Alexis Berne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
11:05 AM
C32A-04
 
The NASA Airborne Snow Observatory: Demonstration Mission 2
Thomas H Painter1, Daniel F Berisford2, Joseph W Boardman3, Kat Bormann2, Jeffrey S Deems4, Frank Gehrke5, Jason Horn1, Danny G Marks6, Chris A Mattmann2, Bruce J McGurk7, Paul Ramirez1, Megan 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)Analytical Imaging and Geophysics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)State of California, Sacramento, CA, United States, (6)USDA Agriculture Research Serv, 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)USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States
11:20 AM
C32A-05
 
Snow surface temperature, radiative forcing and snow depth as determinants of snow density
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, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
11:35 AM
C32A-06
 
Using regional-scale LiDAR surveys to validate operational snow models
Andrew R Hedrick1, Hans-Peter Marshall2, Adam H Winstral1, Kelly Elder3, Simon H Yueh4 and Donald W Cline5, (1)USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Office of Hydrologic Development, Hydrology Laboratory, NOAA-NWS, Silver Spring, MD, United States
11:50 AM
C32A-07
 
Development of Snow Movement over Open Terrain for Hydrology (SMOOTH) model
Noriaki Ohara, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
12:05 PM
C32A-08
 
Non-linear Bio-geophysical and Remote Sensing Relations Revealed in Neural Network Training for Fractional Snow Cover Estimation
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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