Snowfall Fraction, Cold Content, and Energy Balance Changes Drive Differential Response to Simulated Warming in an Alpine and Subalpine Snowpack

Four-fold increase in solar forcing on snow in western U.S. burned forests since 1999

(2019) Kelly E. Gleason et al.   Nature Communications

Variation in Rising Limb of Colorado River Snowmelt Runoff Hydrograph Controlled by Dust Radiative Forcing in Snow

(2018) Thomas H. Painter et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Snowmelt-Driven Trade-Offs Between Early and Late Season Productivity Negatively Impact Forest Carbon Uptake During Drought

(2018) John F. Knowles et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Humidity determines snowpack ablation under a warming climate

(2018) Adrian A. Harpold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Meltwater Flow Paths: Insights From a Grid of Over 100 Snow Lysimeters

(2018) R. W. Webb et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

How Does Snow Persistence Relate to Annual Streamflow in Mountain Watersheds of the Western U.S. With Wet Maritime and Dry Continental Climates?

(2018) John C. Hammond et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Spatial variation of the rain–snow temperature threshold across the Northern Hemisphere

(2018) Keith S. Jennings et al.   Nature Communications

Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America

(2018) Keith N. Musselman et al.   Nature Climate Change

Impact of future climate and vegetation on the hydrology of an Arctic headwater basin at the Tundra-Taiga transition

(2018) Sebastian A. Krogh et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Different sensitivities of snowpacks to warming in Mediterranean climate mountain areas

(2017) J I López-Moreno et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Relative Humidity Has Uneven Effects on Shifts From Snow to Rain Over the Western U.S.

(2017) A. A. Harpold et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Snow disappearance timing is dominated by forest effects on snow accumulation in warm winter climates of the Pacific Northwest, United States

(2017) Susan E. Dickerson-Lange et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

On the use of a snow aridity index to predict remotely sensed forest productivity in the presence of bark beetle disturbance

(2017) John F. Knowles et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

The twenty-first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future

(2017) Bradley Udall et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Regional sensitivities of seasonal snowpack to elevation, aspect, and vegetation cover in western North America

(2017) Christopher J. Tennant et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Slower snowmelt in a warmer world

(2017) Keith N. Musselman et al.   Nature Climate Change

Testing the recent snow drought as an analog for climate warming sensitivity of Cascades snowpacks

(2016) Matthew G Cooper et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Snowmelt rate dictates streamflow

(2016) Theodore B. Barnhart et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Earlier snowmelt reduces atmospheric carbon uptake in midlatitude subalpine forests

(2016) Taylor S. Winchell et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Charred forests accelerate snow albedo decay: parameterizing the post-fire radiative forcing on snow for three years following fire

(2016) Kelly E. Gleason et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Influence of Initial Snowpack Properties on Runoff Formation during Rain-on-Snow Events

(2016) Sebastian Würzer et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

How Does Availability of Meteorological Forcing Data Impact Physically Based Snowpack Simulations?

(2016) Mark S. Raleigh et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Mountains of Our Future Earth: Defining Priorities for Mountain Research—A Synthesis From the 2015 Perth III Conference

(2016) Erin H. Gleeson et al.   MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Snowpack-climate manipulation using infrared heaters in subalpine forests of the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA

(2015) Leah Meromy et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The potential for snow to supply human water demand in the present and future

(2015) Justin S Mankin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Sensitivity of soil water availability to changing snowmelt timing in the western U.S.

(2015) Adrian A. Harpold et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Artificial amplification of warming trends across the mountains of the western United States

(2015) Jared W. Oyler et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Snowpack sensitivity to perturbed climate in a cool mid-latitude mountain catchment

(2015) Kabir Rasouli et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Catchment response to bark beetle outbreak and dust-on-snow in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

(2015) Ben Livneh et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Precipitation-snowmelt timing and snowmelt augmentation of large peak flow events, western Cascades, Oregon

(2015) Keith Jennings et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Extent of the rain-snow transition zone in the western U.S. under historic and projected climate

(2014) P. Zion Klos et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Hydrological sensitivity of a northern mountain basin to climate change

(2014) Kabir Rasouli et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Hydrological model uncertainty due to precipitation-phase partitioning methods

(2014) Phillip Harder et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Variability of Observed Energy Fluxes during Rain-on-Snow and Clear Sky Snowmelt in a Midlatitude Mountain Environment

(2014) J. Garvelmann et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Sensitivity of snowpack storage to precipitation and temperature using spatial and temporal analog models

(2014) Charles H. Luce et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Snowpack regimes of the Western United States

(2014) Ernesto Trujillo et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A precipitation shift from snow towards rain leads to a decrease in streamflow

(2014) W. R. Berghuijs et al.   Nature Climate Change

Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland

(2013) M. Bavay et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Evaluation of modelled snow depth and snow water equivalent at three contrasting sites in Switzerland using SNOWPACK simulations driven by different meteorological data input

(2013) Edgar Schmucki et al.   COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Charred forests increase snowmelt: Effects of burned woody debris and incoming solar radiation on snow ablation

(2013) Kelly E. Gleason et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Sensitivity of Precipitation Phase over the Swiss Alps to Different Meteorological Variables

(2013) S. Froidurot et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Lower forest density enhances snow retention in regions with warmer winters: A global framework developed from plot-scale observations and modeling

(2013) Jessica D. Lundquist et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A comparison of 1701 snow models using observations from an alpine site

(2012) Richard Essery et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Sensitivity of turbulent fluxes to wind speed over snow surfaces in different climatic settings

(2012) Ruzica Dadic et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Subgrid variability of snow water equivalent at operational snow stations in the western USA

(2012) Leah Meromy et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Elevation-dependent influence of snow accumulation on forest greening

(2012) Ernesto Trujillo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Elevation-Dependent Temperature Trends in the Rocky Mountain Front Range: Changes over a 56- and 20-Year Record

(2012) Chris R. McGuire et al.   PLoS One

Dust radiative forcing in snow of the Upper Colorado River Basin: 1. A 6 year record of energy balance, radiation, and dust concentrations

(2012) Thomas H. Painter et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Dust radiative forcing in snow of the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2. Interannual variability in radiative forcing and snowmelt rates

(2012) S. McKenzie Skiles et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Interannual variability of snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, United States: Examples from two alpine watersheds

(2012) Steven M. Jepsen et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Changes in snowpack accumulation and ablation in the intermountain west

(2012) Adrian Harpold et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Causes of recent changes in western North American snowpack

(2011) Sarah Kapnick et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Influence of the PNA on declining mountain snowpack in the Western United States

(2010) John T. Abatzoglou   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Response of Colorado River runoff to dust radiative forcing in snow

(2010) T. H. Painter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Long-term snow, climate, and streamflow trends at the Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed, Owyhee Mountains, Idaho, United States

(2010) A. Nayak et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A comparison of water and carbon dioxide exchange at a windy alpine tundra and subalpine forest site near Niwot Ridge, Colorado

(2009) Peter D. Blanken et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Ecohydrological controls on snowmelt partitioning in mixed-conifer sub-alpine forests

(2009) Noah P. Molotch et al.   Ecohydrology

Implications of global climate change for snowmelt hydrology in the twenty-first century

(2009) Jennifer C. Adam et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Changes in the Timing of Snowmelt and Streamflow in Colorado: A Response to Recent Warming

(2009) David W. Clow   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2)

(2009) Nick Rutter et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Sustainable water deliveries from the Colorado River in a changing climate

(2009) T. P. Barnett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparison of algorithms for incoming atmospheric long-wave radiation

(2009) G. N. Flerchinger et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Changes in snowpack and snowmelt runoff for key mountain regions

(2008) Iris T. Stewart   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Topographic controls on snow distribution, soil moisture, and species diversity of herbaceous alpine vegetation, Niwot Ridge, Colorado

(2008) M. I. Litaor et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Comparing Simulated and Measured Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes over Snow under a Pine Canopy to Improve an Energy Balance Snowmelt Model

(2008) D. Marks et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management?

(2008) P. C. D. Milly et al.   SCIENCE