The assessment of snow, glacier, and rainfall runoff contribution to discharge in mountain streams is of major importance for an adequate water resource management. Such contributions can be estimated via hydrological models, provided that the modeling adequately accounts for snow and glacier melt, as well as rainfall runoff. We present a multiple data set calibration approach to estimate runof...

Winter snowfall and its temporal variability are important factors in the development of water management strategies for snow-dominated regions. For example, mountain regions of Europe rely on snow for recreation, and on snowmelt for water supply and hydropower. It is still unclear whether in these regions the snow regime is undergoing any major significant change. Moreover, snow interannual va...

The use of snow and ice cores as recorders of environmental contamination is particularly relevant for per- and polyfluoroalky substances (PFASs) given their production history, differing source regions and varied mechanisms driving their global distribution. In a unique study perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) were analyzed in dated snow-cores obtained from high mountain glaciers on the Tibetan Plat...

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The Indus basin is considered as the one with highest dependence on snowmelt runoff in High Mountain Asia. recent Asia snow reanalysis enables us to go beyond previous studies by evaluating both and sublimation at scale. Over 2000–2016, basin-average was 101 ± 11 Gt.a−1 (121 13 mm.a−1), which represents about 25–30% of annual precipitation. Snow accounts for 11% mean ablation, but a large spati...

In alpine terrain, snow sublimation represents an important component of the winter moisture budget, representing a proportion of precipitation which does not contribute to melt. To quantify its amount we analyze the spatial pattern of snow sublimation at the ground, from a canopy and from turbulent suspension during wind-induced snow transport for a high alpine area in the Berchtesgaden Nation...

C31A-0275.Dozier, J., and T. H. Painter (2004), Multispectral and hyperspectral remotesensing of alpine snow properties, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 32, 465–494, doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.32.101802.120404.Dressler, K. A., G. Leavesley, R. C. Bales, and S. Fassnacht (2004),Streamflow estimation from hydrologic model assimilation of remotelysensed snow information in snowme...

Mountain ecosystems are among the most fragile environments on Earth. The availability of timely updated information on forest 3D structure would improve our understanding of the dynamic and impact of recent disturbance and regeneration events including fire, insect damage, and drought. Airborne lidar is a critical tool for monitoring forest change at high resolution but it has been little used...

The chemical composition of surface snow and rime ice has been measured in a winter mountain setting for the purpose of identifying the principal scavenging mechanisms. The siting permitted the results to be interpreted with minimal consideration of below-cloud scavenging processes and close comparison of the snow and rime ice compositions. The concentrations of all major ions in the snow were ...