C53B:
Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Variability of Snow and Snow Processes III Posters

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Session ID#: 26575

Session Description:
Snow properties in seasonal and perennial snow environments vary over many orders of spatial and temporal magnitude and at a wide range of scales. Large variations in bulk properties, such as snow depth, snow water equivalent, and impurity content can occur over distances less than 100 meters and time scales of minutes to hours, complicating measurement and modeling efforts. Topography and vegetation combine with variability in precipitation, wind, and melt to create a complex distribution of snow properties across the landscape and through time. This session will focus on studies which quantify spatial and temporal variations in snow and snow-related processes at medium to large scales for a wide range of problems, including snow hydrology, snow avalanches, and remote sensing or modeling efforts.
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, Steven R Fassnacht, Colorado State University, Watershed Science, Fort Collins, United States and Jesus Revuelto, Météo-France - CNRS, CNRM, CEN Grenoble, France
Chairs:  Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Steven R Fassnacht, Colorado State University, Watershed Science, Fort Collins, United States and Jesus Revuelto, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
OSPA Liaison:  Steven R Fassnacht, Colorado State University, Watershed Science, Fort Collins, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
1863 Snow and ice [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Seasonal and Spatial Distribution of Wet Snow in Western Washington State Mapped with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data. (256593)
Kate Baustian1, Summer Rupper2 and Richard R Forster2, (1)University of Utah, Department of Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Remotely Sensed Spatio-Temporal Variability of Snow Cover in Himalayan Region with Perspective of Climate Change (208185)
Sujata Dhakal, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal and Sunal Ojha, Solstice Canada Corp, Canada, AB, Canada
Comparison of MODIS and VIIRS Snow Cover Products for the 2016 Hydrological Year (276226)
Andrew George Klein and Shubhechchha Thapa, Texas A&M University College Station, Geography, College Station, TX, United States
Snow Cover Distribution and Variation using MODIS in the Himalayas of India (222899)
Arun Mondal, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, United States, Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States, Sanjay K. Jain, Scientist, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India, Water Resources Systems Division, Roorkee, India and Prakrut Haresh Kansara, University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Snow Coverage Analysis Using ASTER over the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range (280954)
Brady Ross, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Next Generation Snow Cover Mapping: Can Future Hyperspectral Satellite Spectrometer Systems Improve Subpixel Snow-covered Area and Grain Size in the Sierra Nevada? (287125)
Ryley Hill, San Diego State University / SIO, San Diego, United States, Wendy M Calvin, Univ of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Adrian Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
Spatiotemporal Variability in Topographic and Vegetative Controls on Basin-Wide Snow Distribution in the Tuolumne River Basin (282601)
Ian Wesley Bolliger, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States and Noah P Molotch, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Integration of MODIS Snow, Cloud and Land Area Coverage Data with SNOTEL to Generate Inter-Annual and Within-Season Snow Depletion Curves and Maps (300657)
Russell J Qualls, University of Idaho, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Moscow, ID, United States and Craig Woodruff, University of Idaho, Biological Engineering, Moscow, ID, United States
Using wireless sensor networks to improve understanding of rain-on-snow events across the Sierra Nevada (261158)
Tessa Maurer1, Francesco Avanzi2, Carlos Oroza3, Sami Andrew Malek2, Steven D Glaser2, Roger C Bales4,5 and Martha H Conklin6, (1)Blue Forest Conservation, Sacramento County, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Utah, Civil and Environmental engineering, Salt Lake City, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (6)University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, United States
Uncertainty in Estimates of Net Seasonal Snow Accumulation on Glaciers from In Situ Measurements (241096)
Alexandra Pulwicki, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Gwenn E Flowers, Simon Fraser University, Department of Earth Sciences, Burnaby, BC, Canada and Valentina Radic, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Influence of tundra snow layer thickness on measured and modelled radar backscatter (224854)
Nick Rutter1, Melody J Sandells2, Chris Derksen3, Joshua M King4, Peter Toose5, Leanne Mary Wake1 and Tom Watts6, (1)Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, (2)Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, Grenoble, France, (3)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Reseach Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)Environment Canada Toronto, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (6)Northumbria University, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Estimating the Longwave Radiation Underneath the Forest Canopy in Snow-dominated Setting (266776)
Yifan Zhou, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Mukesh Kumar, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States and Dr. Timothy E Link, PhD, University of Idaho, Water Resources Program, Moscow, ID, United States
Quantifying the changes in the High Mountain Asia snow hydrology (281305)
Yeosang Yoon1, Sujay V Kumar2, David M Mocko3, Robert I Rosenberg4, Yonghwan Kwon5, Barton A Forman5 and Benjamin F Zaitchik6, (1)NASA GSFC/SAIC, Greenbelt, MA, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC/SAIC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA GSFC/SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Evaluating controls on snow distribution in the eastern Chugach Mountains, Alaska (294004)
Gabriel J Wolken1,2, Katreen Wikstrom Jones1 and Community Snow Observers, (1)Department of Natural Resources Alaska, Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States
Variation trend of snowfall in the Kamikochi region of the Japanese Alps (237253)
Keisuke Suzuki, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan
Spatio-temporal Variability of Stratified Snowpack Cold Content Observed in the Rocky Mountains (244591)
Jeffrey Scott Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States, Graham A Sexstone, U.S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, United States and Mark C Serreze, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States
Spatiotemporal Variability of Great Lakes Basin Snow Cover Ablation Events (239699)
Zachary J. Suriano and Daniel J Leathers, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Large Scale Geomorphic Mapping of Cryoplanation Terraces in Central and Eastern Alaska (215126)
Clayton Queen, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States, Kelsey E Nyland, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Frederick E Nelson, Northern Michigan University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences, Marquette, United States
Continuous Estimates of Surface Density and Annual Snow Accumulation with Multi-Channel Snow/Firn Penetrating Radar in the Percolation Zone, Western Greenland Ice Sheet (294083)
Tate Meehan1, Hans-Peter Marshall2, John Bradford2, Robert L Hawley3, Erich C Osterberg4, Forrest McCarthy5, Gabriel Lewis3 and Karina Graeter3, (1)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States, (2)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, United States, (5)Arctic Field Leader, Jackson, WY, United States
Spatial Variability of accumulation across the Western Greenland Ice Sheet Percolation Zone from ground-penetrating-radar and shallow firn cores (252915)
Gabriel Lewis1, Erich C Osterberg2, Robert L Hawley1, Hans-Peter Marshall3, Sean D Birkel4, Tate Gregory Meehan5, Karina Graeter6, Thomas B Overly7 and Forrest McCarthy8, (1)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, United States, (3)Boise State Univ, Boise, ID, United States, (4)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (5)US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)Bowdoin College, Department of Earth Sciences, Brunswick, ME, United States, (7)Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States, (8)Arctic Field Leader, Jackson, WY, United States

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