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Sublimation of snowpacks in subalpine conifer forests

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Schmidt, R A, Troendle, Charles A, and Meiman, J R, Sublimation of snowpacks in subalpine conifer forests: .

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This effort to improve prediction of forest snowpack evaporation was aimed at understanding differences in winter snowpack among forested aspects. Theoretical arguments combined air temperature, humidity, wind speed, and radiation into a sublimation index. Monitoring weather factors and the mass of a 65-cm-diameter pan of snow set in a forest snowpack provided calibration of the index. Changes in snow surface structure caused a decrease with time in the empirical ratio of snowpack-to-index sublimation. This decrease was proportional to total sublimation since snowfall. We applied the model to compute daily snowpack sublimation on two adjacent forested slopes in central Colorado, U.S.A., during a 40-d accumulation period in March and [...]

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