How much runoff originates as snow in the western United States, and how will that change in the future?

Extreme hydrological changes in the southwestern US drive reductions in water supply to Southern California by mid century

(2016) Brianna R Pagán et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Snowmelt rate dictates streamflow

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

Characterizing the extreme 2015 snowpack deficit in the Sierra Nevada (USA) and the implications for drought recovery

(2016) Steven A. Margulis et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A Landsat-Era Sierra Nevada Snow Reanalysis (1985–2015)

(2016) Steven A. Margulis et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

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

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

The impacts of mountain pine beetle disturbance on the energy balance of snow during the melt period

(2015) Christopher M. Welch et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California

(2015) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A spatially comprehensive, hydrometeorological data set for Mexico, the U.S., and Southern Canada 1950–2013

(2015) Ben Livneh et al.   Scientific Data

Comparison of passive microwave and modeled estimates of total watershed SWE in the continental United States

(2014) Carrie M. Vuyovich 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

A Long-Term Hydrologically Based Dataset of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States: Update and Extensions

(2013) Ben Livneh et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Controls of Global Snow under a Changed Climate

(2013) Sarah B. Kapnick et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Evaluation of CMIP5 20thcentury climate simulations for the Pacific Northwest USA

(2013) David E. Rupp et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Evaluation of SNODAS snow depth and snow water equivalent estimates for the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA

(2012) David W. Clow et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Using MODIS snow cover and precipitation data to model water runoff for the Mokelumne River Basin in the Sierra Nevada, California (2000–2009)

(2011) Cynthia Powell et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

A comparison of statistical downscaling methods suited for wildfire applications

(2011) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Snow water equivalent along elevation gradients in the Merced and Tuolumne River basins of the Sierra Nevada

(2011) Robert Rice et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Use of satellite snow-cover data for streamflow prediction in the Feather River Basin, California

(2010) Qiuhong Tang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Timing of present and future snowmelt from high elevations in northwest Montana

(2010) Bonnie J. Gillan et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Storage and release of solutes from a subalpine seasonal snowpack: soil and stream water response, Niwot Ridge, Colorado

(2009) Mark W. Williams et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Modeling snow accumulation and ablation processes in forested environments

(2009) Konstantinos M. Andreadis et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

The Impact of Snow Model Complexity at Three CLPX Sites

(2008) Xia Feng et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY