9C Field Observations, Remote Sensing, and Modeling of Hydrology and Its Change in High-Altitude Complex Terrain

Wednesday, 15 January 2025: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
221 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 39th Conference on Hydrology; and the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation )
Chair:
Daniel Feldman, LBNL, Climate and Ecosystems Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA
Cochairs:
Gijs de Boer, CIRES, Boulder, CO; Mimi Hughes and William Rudisill

Mountain ranges worldwide are experiencing unprecedented changes in their hydrology, including timing and amount of water discharge, snowpack, precipitation amount and phase, radiation, aerosols, clouds, and land-cover characteristics. Together and separately, these changes are a result of some combination of atmospheric, surface, and subsurface processes and point to the need to for process studies, observations, and longitudinal and long-term analyses. They also highlight the need for investigations that are vertically integrated from the sub-surface through the atmosphere. Integrated mountainous hydrology requires extending atmospheric science investigations below the surface and conversely extending sub- surface and surface science investigations into the atmosphere.

Submissions are welcome that use observations ranging from the field scale to ones that use remote sensing to develop deeper scientific understanding and improved modeling of mountainous hydrology and its change, either for short- and medium-term forecasting or long-term projections. The use of vertically-integrated data and methods to gain insights into and make substantial progress on persistent challenges for predicting change in mountainous systems are particularly
encouraged.

Submitters: Daniel Feldman, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; Climate and Ecosystems Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; Gijs de Boer, Physical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO; CIRES, Boulder, CO; Mimi R. Hughes, Physical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO; NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO and William Rudisill, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; LBNL, Berkeley, CA

Papers:
8:30 AM
9C.1
The Short Life of Upvalley Wind during the Warm Season in Colorado’s East River Valley
Bianca Adler, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and V. Caicedo, B. J. Butterworth, C. J. Cox, J. Intrieri, L. Bianco, G. de Boer, E. D. Gutmann, T. P. Meyers, J. Sedlar, D. D. Turner, and J. M. Wilczak

8:45 AM
9C.2
The Impact of Dust in Snowfall on Snow Albedo in the Upper Colorado River Basin
Leah Gibson, LBNL, Lakewood, CO; and D. Feldman, A. C. Aiken, PhD, M. Cowherd, and L. Riihimaki

9:00 AM
9C.3
Surface Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (SQUIRE) from the X-Band Precipitation Radar during the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Experiment
Robert C. Jackson, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; and M. A. Grover, J. R. O'Brien, S. M. Collis, A. Theisen, Z. Sherman, B. Raut, M. Tuftedal, V. Chandrasekar, and D. Feldman

9:15 AM
9C.4
A Time Series Analysis of Rain-on-Snow Events at the Summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire
Charles John Peachey, Mount Washington Observatory, Concord, MA

9:30 AM
9C.5
Characterization and Microphysical Impacts of Cloud Top Generating Cells During WINTRE-MIX
Jairo Michael Valdivia Prado Sr., University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and K. Friedrich, T. J. Zaremba, and S. A. Tessendorf

9:45 AM
9C.6
How Patterns of Cloudiness affect Vegetation Water Status in Mountain Regions
Lauren E. L. Lowman, Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC; and S. G. Gotsch, S. Hartzell, D. R. Vaughan, and G. Attea

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