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DOI | 10.1002/2017WR020915 |
Climatology of seasonal snowfall accumulation across the Sierra Nevada (USA): Accumulation rates, distributions, and variability | |
Huning, Laurie S.; Margulis, Steven A. | |
2017-07-01 | |
发表期刊 | WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH |
ISSN | 0043-1397 |
EISSN | 1944-7973 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 53期号:7 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | A detailed picture of how snowfall varies across high-elevation mountain ranges in both space and time remains a knowledge gap in understanding the montane hydrologic cycle. Previous studies generally used point-scale snow measurements in an attempt to represent the spatial variability of snowfall across a range; however, these traditional approaches provide incomplete insight into the cumulative snowfall (CS) distribution from the basin-scale to the mountain range-scale. In this study, a high-resolution, spatially distributed snow reanalysis was utilized to characterize 31 winters (water years 1985-2015) of snowfall distributions, snowfall accumulation rates, and snowstorms across the Sierra Nevada (USA). The CS data set (quantified in units of snow water equivalent) was verified against over 2600 station years of in situ observations. The seasonal CS was found to have mean and root-mean-squared differences of 24 and 12 cm, respectively, and a correlation of 0.96 with snow pillow observations. Using this novel CS information, results indicated that the CS accumulates rapidly across all 20 basins examined with, on average, at least 50% of the integrated CS accumulating in less than or equal to 6 days or three snowstorms over each basin. The largest (or leading) snowstorms each season yield similar to 27% of the CS, on average, and most frequently last 4 days. Across the range, over 40% of the leading snowstorms occur in February. This study showed that the hydroclimatology of the Sierra Nevada is driven by hydrological extremes as manifested in the high interannual variability of its seasonally integrated CS, 4.4-41.3 km(3), during the 31 years. |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000407895000047 |
WOS关键词 | WESTERN UNITED-STATES ; WATER EQUIVALENT ; ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS ; CALIFORNIA ; SNOWPACK ; DROUGHT ; RESOLUTION ; EVENTS ; SENSOR |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Limnology ; Water Resources |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Marine & Freshwater Biology ; Water Resources |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/22081 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Huning, Laurie S.,Margulis, Steven A.. Climatology of seasonal snowfall accumulation across the Sierra Nevada (USA): Accumulation rates, distributions, and variability[J]. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,2017,53(7). |
APA | Huning, Laurie S.,&Margulis, Steven A..(2017).Climatology of seasonal snowfall accumulation across the Sierra Nevada (USA): Accumulation rates, distributions, and variability.WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,53(7). |
MLA | Huning, Laurie S.,et al."Climatology of seasonal snowfall accumulation across the Sierra Nevada (USA): Accumulation rates, distributions, and variability".WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 53.7(2017). |
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