Many regions of the world are dependent on snow cover for frost protection and summer
water supplies. These same regions are predominantly forested, with forests highly …

Forest canopy structure and associated solar radiation fluxes greatly influence snow
accumulation and melt and have large implications for water availability from forested areas …

Precipitation intercepted by forests plays a major role in more than one‐fourth of the global
land area's hydrologic cycle. Direct in situ measurement of intercepted precipitation is …

Forest canopies act as intermediaries in radiation energy exchange between the
atmosphere and the snow surface. The size, location and distribution of forest discontinuities …

Forest floor vegetation can account for a notable fraction of forest productivity and species
diversity, and the composition of forest floor vegetation is an important indicator of site type …

Abstract While Leaf Area Index (LAI) is critical for understanding forest canopy,
photosynthesis and forest growth, traditional field-based LAI measurements are laborious …

A detailed characterization of vegetation structure is fundamental for physically-based
hydrologic models to simulate various processes that determine rates of snow accumulation …

Light is a key driver of forest biodiversity and functioning. Light regimes beneath tree
canopies are mainly driven by the solar angle, topography, and vegetation structure, whose …

Leaf area is an important forest structural variable which serves as the primary means of
mass and energy exchange within vegetated ecosystems. The objective of the current study …

Forests cover almost 40% of the seasonally snow‐covered regions in North America.
However, operational snow networks are located primarily in forest clearings, and optical …