H41H:
Runoff Generation in Snow-Dominated Regions: Connecting Seasonal Snowpacks and Streamflow Response II Posters

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Session ID#: 29503

Session Description:
Over a billion people worldwide rely on water resources that are derived from snow in mountainous regions. Understanding both the volume of water stored in seasonal snowpacks and its subsequent runoff generation is vital for improved water resource management and planning in these regions. Advances in field measurements, remote sensing observations, and modeling capabilities are critical for linking snowpack information with streamflow response and particularly pertinent to understand how changing snow dynamics will impact future water infrastructure and supply. This session seeks to explore the allocation of snowmelt to various hydrological processes including overland flow, shallow subsurface flow, groundwater recharge, evapotranspiration, and hydrograph separation between the various streamflow components. We invite submissions focusing on the connection between seasonal snowpacks and streamflow response through an improved understanding of runoff generation processes, from the catchment to continental scale.
Primary Convener:  Ryan Webb, University of Colorado, Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Graham A Sexstone, USGS Colorado Water Science Center, Denver, United States, Jessica M Driscoll, National Research Program Lakewood, USGS, Lakewood, CO, United States and Juan Ignacio López, IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Chairs:  Juan Ignacio López, IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain and Ryan Webb, University of Colorado, Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Juan Ignacio López, IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Co-Organized with:
Hydrology, and Cryosphere

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

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
1804 Catchment [HYDROLOGY]
1860 Streamflow [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Climatic Models Ensemble-based Mid-21st Century Runoff Projections: A Bayesian Framework (226171)
Kevin O. Achieng, University of Wyoming, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Laramie, WY, United States and Jianting Zhu, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Snow mass and river flows modelled using GRACE total water storage observations (239842)
Shusen Wang, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Improving Frozen Precipitation Density Estimation in Land Surface Modeling (281786)
Kent Sparrow, UCAR/NOAA/NWC, Tusclaoosa, AL, United States and Greg M Fall, NOAA/NWS/OWP, Chanhassen, MN, United States
50 years of change at 14 headwater snowmelt-dominated watersheds in Wyoming (230669)
Denitza D. Voutchkova, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore and Scott N Miller, Univ Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Impacts of Recent Climatic Wetting on Distributed Snow and Streamflow Responses in a Terminal Lake Basin. (234875)
Diane Van Hoy, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, Taufique H Mahmood, University of North Dakota, Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, Grand Forks, United States, Tyson Jeannotte, University of North Dakota, Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, Grand Forks, ND, United States and Paul E Todhunter, Univ North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States
Hydrograph separation techniques in snowmelt-dominated watersheds (282853)
Samuel Adam Miller, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States and Scott N Miller, Univ Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Rainfall-Driven Diffusive Hydrograph and Runoff Model for Two Sub-Basins within the Arroyo Colorado in South Texas. (258835)
Mary Catherine Ball, Texas A&M University Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, United States, Omar Al-Qudah, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, College of Engineering, Kingsville, TX, United States and Kim Jones, Texas A&M University Kingsville, Environmental Engineering, Kingsville, TX, United States

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