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In the western United States, over half of the water supply is derived from mountain snowmelt, with the snow acting as a natural reservoir, delaying runoff and providing runoff in the spring and summer when it is needed most. Interannual variability of both the magnitude and timing of spring runoff is tremendous, and western states have developed extensive reservoir systems to store water from ...

Factors controlling the partitioning of old and new water contributions to stream flow were investigated for three events in four catchments (three of which were nested) at Sleepers River Research Watershed in Danville, Vermont. In the 1993 snowmelt period, two-component isotopic hydrograph separations showed that new water (meltwater) inputs to the stream ranged widely from 41 to 74%, and incr...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is predicted to experience increases in air temperature, increases in snowfall, and decreases in monsoon rains; however, there is currently a paucity of data that examine the ecological responses to such climate changes. In this study, we examined the effects of increased air temperature and snowfall on: 1) water use partitioning by different plant functional groups, an...

Christopher Potter (corresponding author) NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA Tel.: 650-604-6164 Fax: 650-604-468 E-mail: [email protected] John Shupe Peggy Gross Vanessa Genovese Steven Klooster California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, USA River discharge rates across all California’s watershed have been modeled using the NASA version of the Carnegie-Ames-Stanfo...

An exploration of the wavelet transform as applied to daily river discharge records demonstrates its strong potential for quantifying stream ̄ow variability. Both periodic and non-periodic features are detected equally, and their locations in time preserved. Wavelet scalograms often reveal structures that are obscure in raw discharge data. Integration of transform magnitude vectors over time yi...

Glaciers are highly responsive to global warming and important agents of landscape heterogeneity. While it is well established that glacial ablation and snowmelt regulate stream discharge, linkage among streams and streamwater geochemistry, the controls of these factors on stream microbial biofilms remain insufficiently understood. We investigated glacial (metakryal, hypokryal), groundwater-fed...

Tracer-aided hydrological models are increasingly used to reveal fundamentals of runoff generation processes and water travel times in catchments. Modelling studies integrating stable water isotopes as tracers are mostly based in temperate and warm climates, leaving catchments with strong snow influences underrepresented in the literature. Such catchments are challenging, as the isotopic tracer...