Climate change decisive for Asia's snow meltwater supply

PDA Kraaijenbrink, EE Stigter, T Yao… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Streamflow in high-mountain Asia is influenced by meltwater from snow and glaciers, and
determining impacts of climate change on the region's cryosphere is essential to understand …

[HTML][HTML] Use of Sentinel-1 radar observations to evaluate snowmelt dynamics in alpine regions

C Marin, G Bertoldi, V Premier, M Callegari… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Knowing the timing and the evolution of the snow melting process is very important, since it
allows the prediction of (i) the snowmelt onset,(ii) the snow gliding and wet-snow …

Assimilation of snow cover and snow depth into a snow model to estimate snow water equivalent and snowmelt runoff in a Himalayan catchment

EE Stigter, N Wanders, TM Saloranta, JM Shea… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
Snow is an important component of water storage in the Himalayas. Previous snowmelt
studies in the Himalayas have predominantly relied on remotely sensed snow cover …

[HTML][HTML] Interpreting Sentinel-1 SAR backscatter signals of snowpack surface melt/freeze, warming, and ripening, through field measurements and physically-based …

J Lund, RR Forster, EJ Deeb, GE Liston, SMK Skiles… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The transition of a cold winter snowpack to one that is ripe and contributing to runoff is
crucial to gauge for water resource management, but is highly variable in space and time …

Light and shadow in mapping alpine snowpack with unmanned aerial vehicles in the absence of ground control points

J Revuelto, JI López‐Moreno… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent developments in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and structure from motion (SfM)
algorithms have shown reliable results for retrieving snow depth distribution. However, their …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the degree of detail of temperature-based snow routines for runoff modelling in mountainous areas in central Europe

M Girons Lopez, MJP Vis, M Jenicek… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Snow processes are a key component of the water cycle in mountainous areas as well as in
many areas of the mid and high latitudes of the Earth. The complexity of these processes …

Future perspectives of run-of-the-river hydropower and the impact of glaciers' shrinkage: The case of Italian Alps

ER Patro, C De Michele, F Avanzi - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
We assess the impacts of nine climate-change scenarios on the hydrological regime and on
hydropower production of forty-two glacierized basins across the Italian Alps, assumed …

[HTML][HTML] Energy and mass balance dynamics of the seasonal snowpack at two high-altitude sites in the Himalaya

EE Stigter, JF Steiner, I Koch, TM Saloranta… - Cold Regions Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Snow dynamics play a crucial role in the hydrology of alpine catchments in the Himalaya.
However, studies based on in-situ observations that elucidate the energy and mass balance …

[HTML][HTML] The Canadian Hydrological Model (CHM) v1. 0: a multi-scale, multi-extent, variable-complexity hydrological model–design and overview

CB Marsh, JW Pomeroy… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
Despite debate in the rainfall–runoff hydrology literature about the merits of physics-based
and spatially distributed models, substantial work in cold-region hydrology has shown …

How will snow alter exposure of organisms to cold stress under climate warming?

MR Kearney - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim was to test the capacity of an ecologically focused microclimate model to
capture the interaction between snow cover and soil temperature and use it to assess how …