Snow hydrology in Mediterranean mountain regions: A review

A Fayad, S Gascoin, G Faour, JI López-Moreno… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Water resources in Mediterranean regions are under increasing pressure due to climate
change, economic development, and population growth. Many Mediterranean rivers have …

[HTML][HTML] Our skill in modeling mountain rain and snow is bypassing the skill of our observational networks

J Lundquist, M Hughes, E Gutmann… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
In mountain terrain, well-configured high-resolution atmospheric models are able to simulate
total annual rain and snowfall better than spatial estimates derived from in situ observational …

Exploring the impact of forcing error characteristics on physically based snow simulations within a global sensitivity analysis framework

MS Raleigh, JD Lundquist… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2015 - hess.copernicus.org
Physically based models provide insights into key hydrologic processes but are associated
with uncertainties due to deficiencies in forcing data, model parameters, and model …

Inferring distributed snow depth by leveraging snow pattern repeatability: Investigation using 47 lidar observations in the Tuolumne watershed, Sierra Nevada …

JM Pflug, JD Lundquist - Water Resources Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Snow distribution is controlled by the interaction between local meteorology and static
features like topography and vegetation. The resulting spatial pattern of snow in …

[HTML][HTML] How does availability of meteorological forcing data impact physically based snowpack simulations?

MS Raleigh, B Livneh, K Lapo… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
How Does Availability of Meteorological Forcing Data Impact Physically Based Snowpack
Simulations? in: Journal of Hydrometeorology Volume 17 Issue 1 (2016) Jump to Content …

[HTML][HTML] Implications of the methodological choices for hydrologic portrayals of climate change over the contiguous United States: Statistically downscaled forcing data …

N Mizukami, MP Clark, ED Gutmann… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Continental-domain assessments of climate change impacts on water resources typically
rely on statistically downscaled climate model outputs to force hydrologic models at a finer …

How do hydrologic modeling decisions affect the portrayal of climate change impacts?

PA Mendoza, MP Clark, N Mizukami… - Hydrological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
End users face a range of subjective decisions when evaluating climate change impacts on
hydrology, but the importance of these decisions is rarely assessed. In this paper, we …

Impact of errors in the downwelling irradiances on simulations of snow water equivalent, snow surface temperature, and the snow energy balance

KE Lapo, LM Hinkelman, MS Raleigh… - Water resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The forcing irradiances (downwelling shortwave and longwave irradiances) are the primary
drivers of snowmelt; however, in complex terrain, few observations, the use of estimated …

Estimating mountain basin‐mean precipitation from streamflow using B ayesian inference

B Henn, MP Clark, D Kavetski… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating basin‐mean precipitation in complex terrain is difficult due to uncertainty in the
topographical representativeness of precipitation gauges relative to the basin. To address …

Intermediate snowpack melt-out dates guarantee the highest seasonal grasslands greening in the Pyrenees

J Revuelto, D Gómez, E Alonso-González, I Vidaller… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In mountain areas, the phenology and productivity of grassland are closely related to snow
dynamics. However, the influence that snow melt timing has on grassland growing still …