H22B:
Applications in Snow Hydrology: Linking Seasonal Snow to Natural Processes and Society I
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Session ID#: 61933
Session Description:
Snow plays a critical role in the water and energy cycles; however, in-depth understanding of its role in natural and human systems has been limited by a lack of reliable observations. Advances in field measurements, remote sensing, and modeling capabilities are critical for linking snowpack information to broader processes and understanding how climate dynamics impact the historical/future water supply and infrastructure. This session invites submissions focusing on innovative approaches linking snow to broader fields that address important questions such as: How do extreme events and variability in snow affect the hydrologic cycle, environment, energy sector, resource management, infrastructure, etc.? What recent advancements in snow hydrology better inform these fields? How can these advances better characterize runoff and its linkage to other processes in cold regions? We welcome submissions connecting snow to water and energy cycles across various spatiotemporal scales pertaining to hazards, streamflow forecasting, hydropower, ecology, agriculture, etc.
Primary Convener: Ryan Webb, University of Colorado, Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners: Laurie Huning, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, Dongyue Li, UCLA, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Jessica M Driscoll, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
Primary Liaison: Ryan Webb, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Chairs: Ryan Webb, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States and Laurie Huning, California State University, Long Beach, Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management, Long Beach, United States
OSPA Liaison: Ryan Webb, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Rosemary W H Carroll, Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, Lindsay A Bearup, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, Zhufeng Fang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Rina Schumer, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, Jeffrey S Deems, Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Mammoth Lakes, United States, Wendy Brown, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, United States, Markus Bill, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Wenming Dong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geoscience Division, Berkeley, United States and Kenneth Hurst Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States
Melissa Wrzesien, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States and Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Graham A Sexstone, USGS Colorado Water Science Center Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Jessica M Driscoll, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, United States and Lauren Hay, USGS, Denver, CO, United States
Jessica D Lundquist, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, Jeffrey S Deems, Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Mammoth Lakes, United States, Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, Alexandre Langlois, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Mark S Raleigh, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Melody J Sandells, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, Matthew Sturm, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Carrie Vuyovich, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Eric A Sproles1, Chris Soulsby2, Doerthe Tetzlaff3,4, Shelley MacDonell5, Anne W. Nolin6 and Andres Hevia Cruz5, (1)Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, United States, (2)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (3)Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (4)Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, (5)Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), La Serena, Chile, (6)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, OR, United States
Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland and Tobias Jonas, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Freddy Saavedra, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Departamento de Ciencias y Geografía, Valparaíso, Chile, Stephanie K Kampf, Colorado State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Steven R Fassnacht, Colorado State University, Watershed Science, Fort Collins, United States and Jason Sibold, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Anne Walden Nolin, University of Nevada Reno, Geography, Reno, United States, Chad W Higgins, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, Stephen A. Drake, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States; University of Nevada, Reno, Physics, Reno, NV, United States, David R. Conklin, Oregon Freshwater Simulations, Portland, OR, United States, Jordan Kern, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States, Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and David Hulse, University of Oregon, Landscape Architecture, Eugene, OR, United States
