GC23B
Changes from Snow to Rain: Observation, Prediction, and Consequences Posters

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 13:40-18:00
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
Conveners:  Timothy E Link, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, Seshadri Rajagopal, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States and John T Abatzoglou, University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States
Chairs:  Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States and Seshadri Rajagopal, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
 
Shift from Snowfall to Rainfall in the Canadian Rockies: Consequences for Snowpacks, Glacier Mass Balance and Streamflow in an Emerging Drought (Invited) (59664)
John W Pomeroy, Xing Fang, Dhiraj Pradhananga, Michael Schirmer, Jonathan P. Conway, Warren Helgason and Paul H Whitfield, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
 
Trends in snowfall versus rainfall in the Western United States--Revisited (Invited) (60455)
Michael D Dettinger1, Noah Knowles2 and Daniel R Cayan1, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
Drivers of Snowfall: A Global to Regional Perspective (Invited) (60666)
Sarah B Kapnick, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Changes in Center Time of Spring Discharge and Precipitation in Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1927-2012 (73376)
Karen C Rice, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, P C D Milly, USGS, Princeton, NJ, United States and David Wolock, USGS, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
Diagnosing the drivers of rain on snow events in Alaska using dynamical downscaling (74149)
Peter Bieniek1,2, Uma Suren Bhatt2, Rick Lader1,2, John E Walsh2 and Scott T Rupp3, (1)International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Peak flow transitions from snowmelt to rainfall dominance along the Colorado Front Range: Spatial patterns and temporal trends (75130)
Stephanie K Kampf, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Michael A Lefsky, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Numerical simulation of a rainfall event in Greenland during 10–13 July 2012 using Non-hydrostatic Regional Model (81140)
Akihiro Hashimoto1, Masashi Niwano1 and Teruo Aoki2, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
 
Predicting Snow-To-Rain Transitions Across The Western U.S.: When Is Daily Air Temperature Sufficient? (85258)
Seshadri Rajagopal, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
 
Ecosystem productivity and water stress in tropical East Africa: A Case Study of the 2010-11 drought (86010)
Eugene Samuel Robinson, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
Climate Change Effects on Snow-Precipitation Ratio over Northern California in the 21st Century (86076)
Kei Ishida1, ML Levent Kavvas1, Noriaki Ohara2 and Toan Q Trinh1, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States