The Effect of the Vertical Canopy Structure on Snow Processes in Low and High Snow Scenarios in the Western California and Southern Wyoming: Simulations of Vertical Resolved Energy Fluxes & Snow Interception Using a Higher Order Closure Multi-Layer Soil-Vegetation-Atmospheric Model

Laura E McGowan1, Kyaw Tha Paw U2, Helen E Dahlke3 and David R. Pyles1, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States