Abstract The performance of blue-green infrastructures (BGIs) has been well documented in temperate and subtropical climates, but evidence supporting their application cold especially during snowmelt, is still scarce. To address this gap, the present study proposes a modeling method for simulating bioretention cells snowmelt according to different spatial implementation scenarios. We used Storm...

Abstract Rain‐on‐snow (ROS) over snow‐dominated regions such as High Mountain Asia (HMA) modulates snowmelt and runoff is key contributor in influencing water availability hazards (e.g., floods landslides). We studied the trends ROS HMA past two decades from 2001 to 2018 using land surface model Noah‐MP driven by an ensemble precipitation data set. Our results show that changes phase rainfall a...

While pure rain is naturally slightly acidic, the higher level of acidity in acid rain makes it a threat to plant and aquatic life and to some manmade materials and structures. The slight natural acidity of pure rain is the result of carbon dioxide in the air dissolving in water to produce a weak carbonic acid solution. This natural acid in rainfall and snowmelt is partly responsible for the lo...

Depletion curves of the areal extent of snow cover are shown to be basic information in a snowmelt-runoff model. Originally developed in European mountain basins, the procedure is now applied to simulate the runoff in the Rocky Mountains with the use of the Landsat imagery and air temperature data. The method requires a proper assessment of the recession coefficient of discharge in a given basi...

Remote sensing provides a means of observing hydrological state variables over large areas. The ones which we will consider in this paper are land surface temperature from thermal infrared data, surface soil moisture from passive microwave data, snow cover using both visible and microwave data, water quality using visible and near-infrared data and estimating landscape surface roughness using l...

Fluvial flooding in Canada is often snowmelt-driven, thus occurs mostly spring, and has caused billions of dollars damage the past decade alone. In a warmer climate, increasing rainfall changing snowmelt rates could lead to significant shifts flood-generating mechanisms. Here, projected changes mechanisms terms relative contribution are assessed across Canada, based on an ensemble transient cli...

Abstract The start of the growing season for alpine plants is primarily determined by date snowmelt. We analysed time series snow depth at 23 manually operated and 15 automatic (IMIS) stations between 1055 2555 m asl in Swiss Central Alps. Between 1958 2019, snowmelt dates occurred 2.8 ± 1.3 days earlier year per decade, with a strong shift towards during late 1980s early 1990s, but non-signifi...