H43C:
Blue and Green Water in Cold Mountains: Changes in Climate, Hydrologic Regimes, Extreme Events, and Ecological Responses II Posters

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Session ID#: 29418

Session Description:
In cold mountainous watersheds, winter precipitation stored as snow and ice is released during the growing season as meltwater runoff. Snowpack and glacial reservoirs thus modulate the amount and timing of water availability for natural and human systems, impacting evapotranspiration, streamflow regime and extremes, growing season length, crop production, and aquatic habitat. Warmer winters may shift precipitation phase and snowmelt energy, affecting hydrologic extremes, meltwater hydrographs, and soil recharge dynamics, with consequences for water management, rain-on-snow flood risk, ecosystem services, and food-energy-water systems. This session examines how mountain ecohydrology evolves with environmental change, with specific interest in (1) key interactions between biota, climate, snow/ice, and water, (2) the frequency and severity of hydrologic extremes, and (3) precipitation phase shifts. We invite contributions addressing linkages between environmental change and cryospheric, hydrologic, and ecologic processes in mountain systems.
Primary Convener:  Mark S Raleigh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Yonas B Dibike, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Environmental Research and Modelling Directorate, Victoria, BC, Canada, Mohammad Sohrabi, Univercity of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States and Rajesh Shrestha, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology, Victoria, BC, Canada
Chairs:  Mark S Raleigh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Yonas B Dibike, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Environmental Research and Modelling Directorate, Victoria, BC, Canada, Mohammad Sohrabi, Center for Ecohydraulics Research, Boise, ID, United States and Rajesh Shrestha, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology, Victoria, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Rajesh Shrestha, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology, Victoria, BC, Canada
Co-Organized with:
Hydrology, Cryosphere, and Global Environmental Change

Cross-Listed:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Colorado River basin sensitivity to disturbance impacts (284542)
Katrina E Bennett1, Jorge Rolando Urrego-Blanco2, Alexandra K Jonko3, Julie A Vano4, Andrew James Newman5, Theodore J Bohn6 and Richard Middleton3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (6)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Water towers of the Great Basin: climatic and hydrologic change at watershed scales in a mountainous arid region (294067)
Stuart B Weiss, Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Enhanced warming and amplified hydrologic response in a sub-arctic mountainous river basin (262184)
Rajesh Shrestha, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division, Victoria, BC, Canada and Alex J. Cannon, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Data and Analysis Section, Climate Research Division, Victoria, BC, Canada
Response of small glaciers to climate change: runoff from glaciers of the Wind River range, Wyoming (301280)
Andrew K Bliss, Colorado State University, Anthropology and Geography, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Brooke Stamper, Colorado State University, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Projected Changes in Hydrological Extremes in a Cold Region Watershed: Sensitivity of Results to Statistical Methods of Analysis (207059)
Yonas B Dibike, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Environmental Research and Modelling Directorate, Victoria, BC, Canada, Hyung-Il Eum, Alberta Environment and Parks, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division, Calgary, AB, Canada and Terry D Prowse, Environment and climate change Canada, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division, Victoria, BC, Canada
Catchment Integration of Sensor Array Observations to Understand Hydrologic Connectivity (257911)
Stephanie Redfern, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Ben Livneh, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, Noah P Molotch, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Katherine Suding, University of Colorado, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Jason Caufield Neff, University of Colorado at Boulder, Sustainability Innovation Lab at Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Eve-Lyn S Hinckley, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Improving snow water equivalent simulations in an alpine basin using blended gage precipitation and snow pillow measurements (270919)
Mohammad Sohrabi, University of California Merced, Siera Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA, United States, Safeeq Khan, University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA, United States and Martha H Conklin, University of California Merced, Merced, United States
Elevational Dependence of Catchment-scale Evapotranspiration Partitioning as Revealed by Water Stable Isotopes (212339)
Tsutomu Yamanaka, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan and Rei Sato, Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Response of Tree Rings Growth to Various Climatological Indices in the Sierra Nevada Mountains (221756)
Eylon Shamir1, Rebecca Kaliff1, Rochelle Graham2, Kai Lepley3, David M Meko4 and Ramzi Touchan5, (1)Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)Hydrologic Reseach Center, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, & Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Vegetative Succession in Recently Deglaciated Land in Kenai Fjords National Park (291482)
Carl Green, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Andrew George Klein, Texas A & M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States and Cairns M. David, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States
Ecohydrological dynamics of peatlands and adjacent upland forests in the Rocky Mountains (296221)
David Millar1, Andy Parsekian2, Jason Mercer1, Brent E Ewers3, David Scott Mackay4, David G Williams5, David J Cooper6 and Michael J Ronayne7, (1)University of Wyoming, Botany, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)University of Wyoming, Botany, Laramie, United States, (4)University at Buffalo, Department of Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, (5)Univ Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Climate Change Impacts on Sediment Yield in Headwaters of a High-latitude Region in China (222386)
Yuyan Zhou1,2, Yi-Jun Xu2, Jianhua Wang Dr.1, Xiao Weihua3 and Ya Huang1,4, (1)China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Department of Water Resources, Beijing, China, (2)Louisiana State University, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Department of Water Resources, Beijing, China, (4)Guangxi University, Nanning, China

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