Mountain Snow System Interactions - An Integrative = Approach

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TI: Mountain Snow = System=20 Interactions - An Integrative Approach
AU: *=20 Landry, C C
EM: clandry@snowstudies.org
AF: Center for=20 Snow and Avalanche Studies, PO Box 190, Silverton, CO 81433 United = States=20
AU: Painter, T H
EM: tpainter@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and=20 Ice Data Center, 449 UCB University of Colorado, Boulder, CO = 80309-0449=20 United States
AU: Barrett, A = P
EM:=20 apbarrett@kryos.colorado.edu
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, 449 UCB University = of=20 Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0449 United States
AB: = Snow scientists now have capabilities and opportunities = unimagined in the 1950's due to refinements in field techniques = and=20 instrumentation, and the advent of remote sensing platforms. These = technical advances enable snow scientists to observe the mountain = snow=20 system at virtually any spatial scale. Mountain snow covers are = essential=20 water resources in many regions and are increasingly recognized as = sensitive bellwethers of global change. Earth system science = requires=20 datasets that capture the 'vital signs' of system states and = interactions=20 at multiple spatio/temporal scales. Snowmelt processes are = influenced by=20 complex interactions that occur over a range of spatial scales. = Surface=20 energy exchange states and storage of melt water within the = snowpack are=20 expected to dominate snowmelt at the point scale. At larger = spatial=20 scales, the influence on lateral movement of water through the = snowpack by=20 basin topography and stream network traits may begin to dominate = runoff.=20 At still larger scales, reductions in basin- scale snow albedo = caused by=20 aerosols or dusts originating from distant sources may become the = dominant=20 forcing agent. Models based on an understanding of snowpack = processes at=20 the point scale will tend to allow point-scale processes to = dominate when=20 integrated to the basin scale. Knowledge of how processes at = different=20 scales interact, and which processes dominate at which scales, is=20 essential to the development of new models. Traditional snow = observation=20 protocols and existing datasets often fail to capture or represent = earth-surface interactions and processes in ways that enhance the=20 integrated investigation of the mountain snow system as a system. = The=20 Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies and its collaborators seek = to=20 facilitate the interdisciplinary, integrative development of a = ?mountain=20 snow system observation protocol? or MSSOP. A multi-modal, = multi-scale,=20 integrative MSSOP observation set would identify proxy measures of = system=20 behavior for routine and sustained observation at mountain snow = system=20 observatories such as the Senator Beck Basin Study Area in the San = Juan=20 Mountains of southwest Colorado. An MSSOP would facilitate = mountain=20 climate and weather modeling and verification, would support = research and=20 applications in global change science and regional resource and = hazard=20 management, provide a framework for analyzing, enhancing, and = publishing=20 existing snow datasets and observation programs, and represent a = basis on=20 which further hydrologic/snow system observatories are grown.=20
DE: 1860 Runoff and = streamflow
DE:=20 1863 Snow and ice (1827)
DE: 1620=20 Climate dynamics (3309)
DE: 1640 Remote = sensing
DE: 0305 Aerosols and particles = (0345,=20 4801)
SC: Cryosphere [C]
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