H11D:
Blue and Green Water in the Mountains: Water Supply, Extreme Events, and Ecological Responses in Snow and Glacier-fed Catchments I

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Session ID#: 16938

Session Description:
Mountain snow and ice serve as important hydrologic reservoirs, storing cold season precipitation for melt, runoff, and plants during the growing season. With warming winters, changes in precipitation phase and melt energy are shifting soil water recharge and meltwater hydrographs, with consequences for mountain ecology, water management, and rain-on-snow flood risk. Important questions for mountain regions include: (1) What are key interactions among biota, climate, snow/ice, and water? (2) How do these processes co-evolve or decouple in response to environmental change? and (3) What can we learn from limited observation about how mountain systems respond to long-term shifts? Complex interacting processes and fine-scale climatic variability present significant challenges to answering these questions. We invite contributions addressing linkages between environmental change and cryospheric, hydrologic, and ecologic processes in mountain systems.
Primary Convener:  Charles H Luce, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, United States
Conveners:  Connie Millar, US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region Vallejo, Vallejo, CA, United States, Keith N Musselman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Lara M Kueppers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, United States
Chairs:  Keith N Musselman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Lara M Kueppers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, United States, Charles H Luce, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, United States and Connie Millar, US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region Vallejo, Vallejo, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Charles H Luce, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, United States
Co-Organized with:
Hydrology, Global Environmental Change, and Cryosphere

Cross-Listed:
  • C - Cryosphere

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Do Forest-Snow Feedbacks Mitigate or Exacerbate a Mountain’s Hydrologic Response to a Warming World? (Invited) (117532)
Jessica D Lundquist1, Janneke Hillerislambers2, Susan E. Dickerson-Lange3, Nicoleta C Cristea1, Mark S Wigmosta4 and Ning Sun4, (1)University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Biology, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)University of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
The pulse of a montane ecosystem: coupled diurnal cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, evapotranspiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen Creek (Sierra Nevada, California) (Invited) (118432)
James W Kirchner, ETH Zurich, Dept. of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland; WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Quantifying changes in the contribution of upstream snow and glacier melt to downstream low flows in the River Rhine (155982)
Kerstin Stahl1, Irene Kohn2, Mario Boehm3, Jan Seibert4, Daphne Freudiger2, Kai Gerlinger3 and Markus Weiler1, (1)University of Freiburg, Freiberg, Germany, (2)University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, (3)HYDRON GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany, (4)University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland
From Icefield to Ocean: Investigating Biophysical Linkages at Wolverine Glacier Alaska (141884)
Shad O'Neel1, Louis Sass2, Joshua C Koch1, Jeremy S Littell3, Eric S Klein4, Hans-Peter Marshall5, Adam LeWinter6, Christopher F Larsen7, David F Hill8, Eran W Hood9, Sara Sawicki10 and Austin Carter11, (1)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, United States, (3)USGS Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, United States, (4)University of Alaska Anchorage, Geological Sciences, Anchorage, United States, (5)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (6)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (7)Geophysical Institute, Juneau, AK, United States, (8)Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (9)University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States, (10)Alaska Pacific University, ICE, Anchorage, AK, United States, (11)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Microclimatic and snowpack variation in Alaskan ecotones and forest along a perhumid to the Arctic gradient (138986)
Jeremy S Littell, USGS, DOI Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States
Mapping Drought Sensitivity of Ecosystem Functioning in Mountainous Watersheds: Spatial Heterogeneity and Geological-Geomorphological Control (145324)
Haruko M Wainwright1, Christoph F Steefel2, Kenneth Hurst Williams2, Susan S. Hubbard3, Brian Joseph Enquist4, Heidi Steltzer5 and Trutner Sarah2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (5)Iliff School of Theology, Denver, United States
Hydrologic Response to Climatic and Vegetation Change in an Extreme Alpine Environment (166422)
Ben Livneh, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, Andrew Badger, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, Clifford Bueno de Mesquita, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Katherine Suding, University of Colorado, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Quantifying Current and Future Groundwater Storage in Snowmelt Dominated High Elevation Meadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA (187136)
Christopher Lowry, University at Buffalo, Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States and Dominick Michael Ciruzzi, University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States

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