H31A:
Changing Cold Regions: Climate, Cryosphere, Hydrology, Ecology III
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Session ID#: 6903
Session Description:
In recent decades, widespread changes in cold region Earth system processes have been observed, including atmospheric warming, altered precipitation patterns, declining snowcover, retreating glaciers, thawing permafrost, shifting hydrological regimes and changing terrestrial vegetation communities. There is an urgent need for improved understanding of and predictive capacity for the dynamics of cold regions processes and systems at a wide range of scales. This session invites submissions that address the observation, diagnosis, and/or prediction of one or more components of the changing cold regions Earth system: atmosphere, snowpacks, glaciers, permafrost, hydrology and terrestrial vegetation, particularly in northern latitudes and mountain regions. Research describing advancements in observations, process understanding, model development or model application towards this purpose and examples that link components of the cold regions Earth system to better understand the impacts of extreme events or rapid change are particularly welcome.
OSPA Liaison: Chris M DeBeer, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Chairs: John W Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Chris M DeBeer, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Howard S. Wheater, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology and Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Primary Convener: Chris M DeBeer, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Conveners: Howard S. Wheater, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology and Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, John W Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Danny G Marks, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Noah-MP Land Surface Model simulation for Boreal Forest (BERMS SK-OAS) Site (36302)
Yanping Li, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Liang Chen, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Alan Barr, Environment Canada, Climate Research Division, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Bingcheng Wan, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States
Comparing Observed and Simulated Interannual Variability in the Carbon and Water Balances of the Southern Boreal Forest (36492)
Omer Yetemen, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Andrew M Ireson, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Jill F Johnstone, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, Alan Barr, Environment Canada, Climate Research Division, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and T. Andrew Black, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Simulation of Lake Heat Fluxes by the Canadian Small Lake Model: Offline Performance Assessment for Future Coupling with a Regional Climate Model (34177)
Patricia Pernica, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Murray MacKay, Environment Canada Toronto, Science and Technology Branch, Toronto, ON, Canada and Howard S. Wheater, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology and Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Long-term Changes in Distributed Precipitation Phase at Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed, Idaho, USA. (34559)
Patrick Kormos, USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States, Danny G Marks, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, Annelen Kahl, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, David C Garen, NRCS, Portland, OR, United States, Andrew R Hedrick, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Boise, ID, United States, Scott Havens, USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
Estimating SWE distribution with a combination of ground-based radar measurements, modeling and remote sensing (35570)
Danny G Marks, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, Scott Havens, USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland and Rupesh Shrestha, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
Fusing Basin-Scale Airborne Observations with Simulations to Quantify Mountain Snow Water Storage During a Severe Drought (35822)
Kat J Bormann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Danny G Marks, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, Bruce J McGurk, McGurk Hydrologic, Orinda, CA, United States, Andrew R Hedrick, Agricultural Research Service Boise, Boise, ID, United States and Thomas H Painter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
