C41F
Modeling Snow and Streamflow for Water Supply Forecasts from Mountain Basins in a Rapidly Changing Climate II

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3005 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Danny G Marks, USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States
Conveners:  David C Garen, NRCS, Portland, OR, United States and Martyn P Clark, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Patrick R Kormos, USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States and Timothy E Link, University of Idaho, forest resources, Moscow, ID, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Scott Havens, USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States
08:15
Rapid Snowmelt Leads to Greater Streamflow Across the Western United States (Invited) (80323)
Theodore B Barnhart, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
08:30
Developing Snow Model Forcing Data From WRF Model Output to Aid in Water Resource Forecasting (69873)
Scott Havens1, Danny G Marks1, Katelyn A Watson2, Matt Masarik2, Alejandro N Flores2, Patrick Kormos1 and Andrew R Hedrick3, (1)USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (3)USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, United States
08:45
Operational Snow Modeling: A Look at the Current State and Future Challenges (78791)
Adam H Winstral1, Tobias Jonas2, Danny G Marks3, Thomas H Painter4, Kat Bormann4, Jeffrey S Deems5, Scott Havens3, Andrew R Hedrick6, Nora Helbig1, Jan Magnusson1, Bruce J McGurk7 and McKenzie Skiles4, (1)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (2)SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (3)USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, United States, (7)Self Employed, McGurk Hydrologic, Washington, DC, United States
09:00
The NASA Airborne Snow Observatory: Demonstration Mission-3 and the Path Forward to a Broader ASO Program (79657)
Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
09:15
Constraining Annual Water Balance Estimates with Basin-Scale Observations from the Airborne Snow Observatory during the Current Californian Drought (80880)
Kat Bormann1, Thomas H Painter1, Danny G Marks2, Andrew R Hedrick3, Jeffrey S Deems4, Victoria Patterson5 and Bruce J McGurk6, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States, (3)USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, United States, (4)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Self Employed, McGurk Hydrologic, Washington, DC, United States
09:30
Snowpack response to warmer temperatures: a southern Sierra Nevada case study (Invited) (81071)
Keith N Musselman, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Steven A Margulis, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
09:45
Evaluating winter snowfall event distribution in a mountain watershed using differential airborne laser scanning (Invited) (83243)
Jeffrey S Deems1, Kathryn J Bormann2, Andrew R Hedrick3 and Thomas H Painter2, (1)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, United States
 
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