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Ali Nadir Arslan and Zuhal Akyürek
Snow cover is an essential climate variable directly affecting the Earth?s energy balance. Snow cover has a number of important physical properties that exert an influence on global and regional energy, water, and carbon cycles. Remote sensing provides a...
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Zuhal Akyurek, Semih Kuter, Çagri H. Karaman and Berkay Akpinar
Understanding the distribution, patterns, and characteristics of snowfall and snow cover within a given region over extended periods is important. Snow climatology provides valuable insights into the seasonal and long-term variations in snowfall, helping...
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Marko Kaasik, Outi Meinander, Leena Leppänen, Kati Anttila, Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Anders Ginnerup, Timo Hampinen, Yijing Liu, Andri Gunnarsson, Kirsty Langley and Ali Nadir Arslan
Snow sampling, either by inserting a tube through the entire snowpack or by taking samples from the vertical profile, is widely applied to measure the snow depth, density, and snow water equivalent (SWE). A comparative study of snow-sampling methods was ...
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Benjamin J. Hatchett
Snowpack seasonality in the conterminous United States (U.S.) is examined using a recently-released daily, 4 km spatial resolution gridded snow water equivalent and snow depth product developed by assimilating station-based observations and gridded tempe...
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Munkhdavaa Munkhjargal, Simon Groos, Caleb G. Pan, Gansukh Yadamsuren, Jambaljav Yamkin and Lucas Menzel
Knowledge of the duration and distribution of seasonal snow cover is important for understanding the hydrologic regime in mountainous regions within semi-arid climates. In the headwater of the semi-arid Sugnugur catchment (in the Khentii Mountains, north...
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Munkhdavaa Munkhjargal, Simon Groos, Caleb G. Pan, Gansukh Yadamsuren, Jambaljav Yamkin and Lucas Menzel
Knowledge of the duration and distribution of seasonal snow cover is important for understanding the hydrologic regime in mountainous regions within semi-arid climates. In the headwater of the semi-arid Sugnugur catchment (in the Khentii Mountains, north...
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Jürgen Helmert, Aynur Sensoy Sorman, Rodolfo Alvarado Montero, Carlo De Michele, Patricia De Rosnay, Marie Dumont, David Christian Finger, Martin Lange, Ghislain Picard, Vera Potopová, Samantha Pullen, Dagrun Vikhamar-Schuler and Ali Nadir Arslan
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action ES1404 “HarmoSnow”, entitled, “A European network for a harmonized monitoring of snow for the benefit of climate change scenarios, hydrology and numerical weather predicti...
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Silvia Terzago, Claudio Cassardo, Roberto Cremonini and Simona Fratianni
Snow cover greatly influences the climate in the Alpine region and is one of the most relevant parameters for the climate change analysis. Nevertheless, snow precipitation variability is a relatively underexplored field of research because of the lack of...
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Jeremy S. Littell, Stephanie A. McAfee and Gregory D. Hayward
Climatically driven changes in snow characteristics (snowfall, snowpack, and snowmelt) will affect hydrologic and ecological systems in Alaska over the coming century, yet there exist no projections of downscaled future snow pack metrics for the state of...
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Shengbo Hu, Zhijun Li, Peng Lu, Qingkai Wang, Jie Wei and Qiuming Zhao
In their natural state, snow crystals are influenced by the atmosphere during formation and multiple factors after landing, resulting in varying particle sizes and unstable particle morphologies that are challenging to quantify. The current research main...
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Andri Gunnarsson and Sigurdur M. Gardarsson
Efficient water resource management in glacier- and snow-dominated basins requires accurate estimates of the snow water equivalent (SWE) in late winter and spring and melt onset timing and intensity. To understand the high spatio-temporal variability of ...
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Benjamin J. Hatchett, Britta Daudert, Christopher B. Garner, Nina S. Oakley, Aaron E. Putnam and Allen B. White
The partitioning of precipitation into frozen and liquid components influences snow-derived water resources and flood hazards in mountain environments. We used a 915-MHz Doppler radar wind profiler upstream of the northern Sierra Nevada to estimate the h...
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Rafael Pimentel, Cristina Aguilar, Javier Herrero, María José Pérez-Palazón and María José Polo
Albedo plays an important role in snow evolution modeling quantifying the amount of solar radiation absorbed and reflected by the snowpack, especially in mid-latitude regions with semiarid conditions. Satellite remote sensing is the most extensive techni...
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Bohu He, Mingzhou Bai, Binglong Liu, Pengxiang Li, Shumao Qiu, Xin Li and Lusheng Ding
Drifting snow, the flow of dispersed snow particles near ground level under the action of wind, is a major form of snow damage. When drifting snow occurs on railways, highways, and other transportation lines, it seriously affects their operational safety...
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Gaia Piazzi, Cemal Melih Tanis, Semih Kuter, Burak Simsek, Silvia Puca, Alexander Toniazzo, Matias Takala, Zuhal Akyürek, Simone Gabellani and Ali Nadir Arslan
Information on snow properties is of critical relevance for a wide range of scientific studies and operational applications, mainly for hydrological purposes. However, the ground-based monitoring of snow dynamics is a challenging task, especially over co...
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Stanzin Passang, Susanne Schmidt and Marcus Nüsser
This article presents the distribution of seasonal snow cover in the Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh over the observation period of 2000?2019. Seasonal snow cover area and duration have been monitored and mapped based on the MODIS Normalised Difference ...
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Ivo Baselt and Thomas Heinze
Climate change is already affecting high mountain regions, such as the European Alps. Those regions will be confronted with a significant rise of temperatures above the global average, and more and heavier rain events, also during wintertime. The system ...
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Dieter Issler
Data on the disastrous snow avalanche that occurred on 18 January 2017 at the spa hotel Rigopiano, municipality of Farindola in the Abruzzo region of central Italy, are analyzed in different ways. The main results are the following. (i) The 2017 Rigopian...
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Sami A. Malek, Roger C. Bales and Steven D. Glaser
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Bijan Seyednasrollah and Mukesh Kumar
Radiation is the major driver of snowmelt, and, hence, its estimation is critically important. Net radiation reaching the forest floor is influenced by vegetation density. Previous studies in mid-latitude conifer forests have confirmed that net radiation...
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