Environmental Data at Remote Camera Stations on Moscow Mountain in Latah County, ID, USA (10/20/20-5/30/21)

Remote camera data on snow presence, snow depth, and wildlife detections on Moscow Mountain in Latah County, ID, USA. Reconyx Hyperfire I and Hyperfire II cameras were used and set to take hourly timelapse images and motion-triggered images. The cameras were deployed from October 2020 - May 2021. Snow presence was assessed up to 15 m from the camera. Snow depth was measured using virtual snow stakes created with the edger R package created by the author. Wildlife were marked as present in all photos in which they appear, and new individuals were counted. Snow density was collected using a federal or prairie snow sampler. Snow hardness was collected using a ram penetrometer. Solar radiation was calculated using hemispherical...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Idaho, Latah, Moscow Mountain, Odocoileus hemionus, Odocoileus virginianus, All tags... camera trap, location, mule deer, snow, snow and ice cover, snow density, snow depth, snow disappearance date, snow presence, snow-dependent, white-tailed deer, Fewer tags

Snow Density Measurements at Remote Camera Stations on Moscow Mountain in Latah County, ID (12/1/20-4/30/21)

We collected snow density measurements at camera sites from December 2020 - April 2021, at the same time as snow hardness measurements. We took measurements every few weeks as logistics allowed. We took samples near the camera site in snow visually similar to the snow in the camera viewshed (the geographical area that is visible from a location) to prevent snow conditions from being disturbed beyond normal camera deployment. We took snow density samples using a homemade prairie sampler in snow depths < 100 cm and using a federal snow sampler in snow depths > 100 cm. The sampler was inserted into the snow to remove a snow core. We retained the core if the depth of snow in the sampler was at least 90% of the actual...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Idaho, Latah, Moscow Mountain, Odocoileus virginianus, biota, All tags... climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, mule deer, snow, snow and ice cover, snow depth, snow disappearance date, snow-dependent, white-tailed deer, Fewer tags

NGWOS Ground Based Discrete Snowpack Measurements

Ground-based discrete snowpack measurements were collected during winter field campaigns starting in 2020. These data were collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) Upper Colorado River Basin project focusing on the relation between snow dynamics and water resources. This data release consists of three child items. Each child item contains snow depth, snow density, snow temperature, or snow water equivalent values measured discretely in the field. The data are provided in comma separated value (CSV) files.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Colorado, Colorado River, Hydrology, Integrated Water Science, Rocky Mountains, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, snow, snow density, snow depth, snow pit, snow temperature, snow water equivalent, snowpack, Fewer tags

Imiq Data Portal

The Database was built to enable data integration across sources, as well as to support program planning and observational network design. The Imiq Data Portal provides a snapshot of available hydroclimate data – a map-based view of where , what , and when data have been obtained. Users can submit a custom data query, specifying variable of interest, geographic bounds, and time step. Imiq will aggregate and export data records from multiple sources in a common format, with full metadata records that provide information about the source data.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ABLATION, ABLATION, ACTIVE LAYER, ACTIVE LAYER, ALBEDO, All tags... ALBEDO, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION, ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION, ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, Academics & scientific researchers, Application, Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLOUD CEILING, CLOUD CEILING, CLOUDS, CLOUDS, DATA DELIVERY, DATA DELIVERY, DATA INTEROPERABILITY, DATA INTEROPERABILITY, DATA SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL, DATA SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DISCHARGE/FLOW, EVAPORATION, EVAPORATION, ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS, ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, RUNOFF, RUNOFF, SEASONALLY FROZEN GROUND, SEASONALLY FROZEN GROUND, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT, SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOILS, SOILS, SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES, SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER CHEMISTRY, SURFACE WATER CHEMISTRY, SURFACE WINDS, SURFACE WINDS, VISIBILITY, VISIBILITY, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, WATER PRESSURE, WATER PRESSURE, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, WEB SERVICES, WEB SERVICES, WEB-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, WEB-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags

Report and Publications: Assessing Evapotranspiration Rate Changes for Proposed Restoration of the Forested Uplands of the DLCC

Final Report - Executive Summary: This final project report is prepared to summarize the research project titled “Assessing evapotranspiration rate changes for proposed restoration of the forested uplands of the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC)” for the Desert LCC of the Bureau of Reclamation as a requirement for closing out the project. This report includes the scope of work, summary of research project, results, and conclusions.Among all of the components of the terrestrial water cycle, evapotranspiration (ET) consumes the largest amount of water. Accurate estimation of ET is very important to understand the influence of ET to the hydrologic response of recharge and runoff processes in the water...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, All tags... AZ-01, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Northern Arizona, Publication, Publication, Publication, Report, United States, WATER VAPOR PROCESSES, WATER VAPOR PROCESSES, adaptation, best management practice (BMP), biota, climate change, completed, drought, ecosystem services, fire, forest, groundwater, hydrology, land cover, management, model, native, plant, product, remote sensing, resilience, restoration, snow, soil, topography, vegetation, water availability, water budget, watershed, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Snow Free Date (year)

This dataset includes Snow Free Date(sfdy) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Snow Free Date is defined as day of the end of the core snow period(day of year). The core snow season is defined to be the longest period of continuous snow cover in each year. The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.“Day-of-year” (doy) output is expressed in Ordinal dates (“1” on 1 January, and “365” on 31 December). Dates have not been corrected for leap years. This output is appropriate for display purposes, as it is readily interpreted as calendar day of year. It is not recommended as input for analysis, as it may produce incorrect...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Snow Depth

This dataset includes Snow Depth(snod) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Snow Depth is defined as depth on 1 March(m). The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.The dataset is delivered in the ZIP archive file format. Each year is output in a separate GeoTiff file, where the year is indicated by the filename.Over the last 20 years, under a variety of NOAA, NSF, and NASA research programs, a snow-evolution modeling system has been developed that includes the MicroMet micrometeorological model, the SnowModel snow-process model, and the SnowAssim data assimilation model. These modeling tools can be thought of as...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

ASDN Terrestrial Invertebrates and Weather Access Database

Access database with terrestrial invertebrate abundance and biomass data in addition to weather data. Arctic Shorebird Demographic Network Camp locations: Nome, Cape Krusenstern, Barrow, Ikpikpuk, Colville, Prudhoe Bay, Canning River, Mackenzie Delta, and East Bay. Latitude and Longitude for each camp are provided in a table in the database.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, ARTHROPODS, All tags... ARTHROPODS, Academics & scientific researchers, Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOMASS, BIOMASS, BIOMASS DYNAMICS, BIOMASS DYNAMICS, BIRDS, BIRDS, Data, FOOD-WEB DYNAMICS, FOOD-WEB DYNAMICS, INSECTS, INSECTS, LCC Network Science Catalog, POPULATION ABUNDANCE, POPULATION ABUNDANCE, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, WATER TEMPERATURE, WATER TEMPERATURE, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, environment, location, location, tentative, Fewer tags

Imiq - Hydroclimate Database and Data Portal

The Imiq Hydroclimate Database houses hydrologic, climatologic, and soils data collected in Alaska and Western Canada from the early 1900s to the present. This database unifies and preserves numerous data collections that have, until now, been stored in field notebooks, on desktop computers, as well as in disparate databases. Synthesizing and analyzing the large-scale hydroclimate characteristics of this important climatic region have been made easier with this searchable database. The data, originally collected in a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 relational database, has been migrated to an open source PostgreSQL and PostGIS environment. The Imiq Data Portal provides public access to portions of the Imiq Hydroclimate...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ABLATION, ABLATION, ACTIVE LAYER, ACTIVE LAYER, ALBEDO, All tags... ALBEDO, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION, ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION, ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLOUD CEILING, CLOUD CEILING, CLOUDS, CLOUDS, DATA DELIVERY, DATA DELIVERY, DATA INTEROPERABILITY, DATA INTEROPERABILITY, DATA SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL, DATA SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DISCHARGE/FLOW, Data Management and Integration, EVAPORATION, EVAPORATION, ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS, ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, Project, RUNOFF, RUNOFF, Report, SEASONALLY FROZEN GROUND, SEASONALLY FROZEN GROUND, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT, SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOILS, SOILS, SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES, SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER CHEMISTRY, SURFACE WATER CHEMISTRY, SURFACE WINDS, SURFACE WINDS, VISIBILITY, VISIBILITY, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, WATER PRESSURE, WATER PRESSURE, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, WEB SERVICES, WEB SERVICES, WEB-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, WEB-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, elevation, elevation, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags

Snow disappearance timing is dominated by forest effects on snow accumulation in warm winter climates of the Pacific Northwest, USA

Abstract (from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.11144/full): The extensive forests that cover the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, USA, modify snow processes and therefore affect snow water storage as well as snow disappearance timing. However, forest influences on snow accumulation and ablation vary with climate, topography, and land cover and are therefore subject to substantial temporal and spatial variability. We utilize multiple years of snow observations from across the region to assess forest-snow interactions in the relatively warm winter conditions characteristic of the maritime and maritime-continental climates. We (1) quantify the difference in snow magnitude and disappearance timing...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Forests, Landscapes, Northwest CASC, All tags... Other Water, Science Tools For Managers, Snow, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags

Observations of distributed snow depth and snow duration within diverse forest structures in a maritime mountain watershed

Abstract (from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015WR017873/abstract): Spatially distributed snow depth and snow duration data were collected over two to four snow seasons during water years 2011–2014 in experimental forest plots within the Cedar River Municipal Watershed, 50 km east of Seattle, Washington, USA. These 40 × 40 m forest plots, situated on the western slope of the Cascade Range, include unthinned second-growth coniferous forests, variable density thinned forests, forest gaps in which a 20 m diameter (approximately equivalent to one tree height) gap was cut in the middle of each plot, and old-growth forest. Together, this publicly available data set includes snow depth and density observations...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Cascade Range, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Forests, Landscapes, All tags... Mountains, Northwest CASC, Other Water, Science Tools For Managers, Water, Coasts and Ice, snow, Fewer tags

HUC12-Monthly Summaries

This data release contains historical SnowModel (Liston and Elder, 2006) output for the Crown of the Continent and surrounding areas in Montana and Idaho, USA; and Alberta and British Columbia, Canada from September 1, 1981 through August 31, 2020. Fifteen daily variables were simulated or derived for this release: (1) snow water equivalent (swed), (2) liquid precipitation (rpre), (3) solid precipitation (spre), (4) albedo (albd), (5) glacial ice melt (glmt), (6) total precipitation (prec), (7) runoff (roff), (8) snow covered area (sca), (9) snow density (sden), (10) snowmelt (smlt), (11) snow depth (snod), (12) snow sublimation (ssub), (13) air temperature (tair), (14) wind speed (wspd), and (15) wind direction...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Crown of the Continent, Glacier National Park, Idaho, All tags... Montana, Northern Rocky Mountains, Waterton Lakes National Park, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, precipitation (atmospheric), runoff, snow, snow and ice cover, snowmelt, snowpack, Fewer tags

Data release in support of runoff sensitivity to snow depletion curve representation within a continental scale hydrologic model

This data release supports the study by Sexstone and others (2019) and contains simulation output from a hydrological modeling experiment using a specific calibration of the conterminous United States (CONUS) application of the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) (Hay, 2019) as implemented in the National Hydrologic Model (NHM) infrastructure (Regan and others, 2018). The by hydrologic response unit (byHRU) calibrated, baseline version of the NHM-PRMS (Hay, 2019) was used to evaluate the sensitivity of simulated runoff to the representation of snow depletion curves (SDCs) within the NHM-PRMS across the CONUS. The model experiment consisted of seven NHM-PRMS model simulations using the calibrated NHM-PRMS...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, hydrologic processes, hydrology, snow, All tags... water budget, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Snow Up Date

This dataset includes Snow Up Date(sudt) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Snow Up Date is defined as day of the start of the core snow period(day of simulation). The core snow season is defined to be the longest period of continuous snow cover in each year. The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.The simulation period runs from 1 September – 31 August. “Day-of-simulation” takes the value of “1” on 1 September, “123” on 1 January, and “365” on 31 August. “Day-of-simulation” files should be used for analysis (trend, mean, etc.).The dataset is delivered in the ZIP archive file format. Each year is output in a...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

Assessing Evapotranspiration Rate Changes for Proposed Restoration of the Forested Uplands of the DLCC

Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is essential for assessments of water balance and hydrologic responses to forest restoration treatments in uplands adjacent to the Desert LCC. As part of the Four Forests Restoration Initiative, a new paired watershed study is being planned to assess the hydrologic effects of mechanically thinning and restoring a more frequent fire regime to the ponderosa pine forests of Arizona. Water and energy balances will be measured and modeled in these paired watersheds to help inform and better plan for the hydrologic responses of future forest restoration actions. Researchers at Northern Arizona University have collected six years of eddy covariance measurements of ET in the...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, All tags... AZ-01, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Northern Arizona, Project, Publication, United States, WATER VAPOR PROCESSES, WATER VAPOR PROCESSES, adaptation, best management practice (BMP), biota, climate change, completed, drought, ecosystem services, fire, forest, groundwater, hydrology, land cover, management, model, native, plant, remote sensing, resilience, restoration, snow, soil, topography, vegetation, water availability, water budget, watershed, Fewer tags

Testing the recent snow drought as an analog for climate warming sensitivity of Cascades snowpacks

Abstract (from http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/8/084009/meta): Record low snowpack conditions were observed at Snow Telemetry stations in the Cascades Mountains, USA during the winters of 2014 and 2015. We tested the hypothesis that these winters are analogs for the temperature sensitivity of Cascades snowpacks. In the Oregon Cascades, the 2014 and 2015 winter air temperature anomalies were approximately +2 °C and +4 °C above the climatological mean. We used a spatially distributed snowpack energy balance model to simulate the sensitivity of multiple snowpack metrics to a +2 °C and +4 °C warming and compared our modeled sensitivities to observed values during 2014 and 2015. We found that for...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Northwest CASC, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, drought, snow, All tags... snow water equivalent, temperature sensitivity, Fewer tags

Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Reach Catchments and Modified Routed Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Estimated Mean Annual Snow as a Percent of Total Precipitation

This tabular data set represents estimated mean annual snow as a percent of total precipitation, 1905-2002 compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID. The source data for estimated mean annual snow as a percent of total precipitation was produced by the USGS (Wolock, written communic., 2012) and processed based on the methods described by McCabe and Wolock (USGS, 2009). Units are percent. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local...

Types: Citation; Tags: Conterminous United States, Inlandwaters, NAWQA, NHDPlus, SPARROW, All tags... snow, snow percent of total precipitation, Fewer tags

Alaska Climate Futures (mid and late 21st century) and Historical References (20th century)

To meet the climate change planning and adaptation needs of Alaska managers and decision makers, I developed a set of statewide summaries of available climate change projections that can be further subset using GIS techniques for requests by management unit, watershed, or other location. This facilitates the development of tailored climate futures for decision makers’ regional or subregional management context. This file describes the source data and summaries for purposes of technical /scientific documentation. The methods and presentation for these datasets were adapted from products in previous USGS-approved IP products for the AKCASC Building Resilience Today project (e.g, Community of Kotlik et al. 2019)....

Tags: Alaska, Arctic, Climatology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, All tags... climate futures, climate projections, fire frequency, precipitation, snow, temperature, vegetation change, water balance, Fewer tags

Avalanche occurrence records along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana from 2003-2023 (ver. 3.0, July 2023)

Starting in 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center in West Glacier, MT, in collaboration with the National Park Service, collected avalanche observations along the Going to the Sun Road during the spring road-clearing operations. The spring road-clearing along Going to the Sun Road utilized a team of avalanche specialists from the USGS and Glacier National Park to communicate the potential avalanche hazard to crews working to clear the road of snow in preparation for summer visitation. The operations typically begin around April 1st and continue through mid-June each year. The dataset includes all of the specific details collected for each avalanche occurrence and conforms...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: CCME-avalanche, Glacier National Park, Going-to-the-Sun Road, Montana, North West Montana, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, cryosphere, environment, field inventory and monitoring, geomorphology, snow, snow and ice cover, snow avalanche, Fewer tags

Historical simulated snowpack and other hydrometeorology data at 90 m for the Crown of the Continent and vicinity, United States and Canada, water years 1981-2020

This data release contains historical SnowModel (Liston and Elder, 2006) output for the Crown of the Continent and surrounding areas in Montana and Idaho, USA; and Alberta and British Columbia, Canada from September 1, 1981 through August 31, 2020. Fifteen daily variables were simulated or derived for this release: (1) snow water equivalent (swed), (2) liquid precipitation (rpre), (3) solid precipitation (spre), (4) albedo (albd), (5) glacial ice melt (glmt), (6) total precipitation (prec), (7) runoff (roff), (8) snow covered area (sca), (9) snow density (sden), (10) snowmelt (smlt), (11) snow depth (snod), (12) snow sublimation (ssub), (13) air temperature (tair), (14) wind speed (wspd), and (15) wind direction...

Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Climatology, Crown of the Continent, Ecology, All tags... Glacier National Park, Idaho, Montana, Northern Rocky Mountains, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Waterton Lakes National Park, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, precipitation (atmospheric), runoff, snow, snow and ice cover, snowmelt, snowpack, Fewer tags