Primary Convener:
Adrienne Marshall, Colorado School of Mines

Convener:
Alan Rhoades, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kate Hale, University of British Columbia
William Rudisill, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Early Career Convener:
Arielle Koshkin, Colorado School of Mines

Chair:
Adrienne Marshall, Colorado School of Mines
Alan Rhoades, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kate Hale, University of British Columbia

Snow accumulation and melt dynamics are highly sensitive to climate variability and change, and climate-driven changes in snowpack have an array of consequences for ecosystem function, energy and water resources, flood planning, and land-atmosphere feedbacks. While climate-driven changes in snowpack are increasingly apparent, remaining uncertainties exist in snowpack impacts from interactions between climate and landcover change (including disturbance impacts), climate and snow model structure and parameters, internal variability, future climate scenarios, spatiotemporal scaling issues, consequences for ecosystem health and water availability, and the translation of this information to stakeholders. In this session, we solicit research across watershed to global scales, evaluating snowpack sensitivity to the impacts of historic and future climate change and associated consequences for natural and managed systems. We welcome analyses that leverage remote sensing data, multi-scale modeling approaches, data science and statistical tools, automated and field observations, and/or other approaches (e.g., community science, scientist-stakeholder interactions).

Index Terms
0736 Snow
1630 Impacts of global change
1655 Water cycles
1863 Snow and ice

Suggested Itineraries:
National Climate Assessment

Cross-Listed:
A - Atmospheric Sciences
H - Hydrology
GC - Global Environmental Change

Co-Organized Sessions:
Atmospheric Sciences

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering