Abstracts for ESC'98 Presentations:
( In same order as Program )
- Invited Presentation: The Montague Snow
Storm of January11-12, 1997. Dr. David Robinson (Rutgers U.).
- 1. Revised Snow Measurement Guidelines
for National Weather Service Cooperative Observers. Robert J. Leffler
(National Weather Service), A. Horvitz and N. Doesken.
- 2. Forecasting Snowfall Amounts: an Ingredients
Based Methodology Supporting the Garcia Method. Daniel D. Nietfeld
(National Weather Service) and D.A. Kennedy.
- 3. Evaluation of Precipitation Gauges and
Wind Shielding for the Measurement of Real-Time Liquid-Equivalent Snowfall.
Jeff Cole, C. Wade and R.M. Rasmussen (NCAR).
- 4. Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Compositions
of Snowmelt from an Isotopically Well-Characterized Snowpack. S. Taylor
(CRREL), X. Feng, R. Osterhuber, J. Kirchner and B. Klaue.
- 5. Snowpack Development and Ablation on Glaciers
and Alpine Areas in the North Cascades, Washington. Mauri S. Pelto
(Nichols College, MA).
- 6. Rainfall-induced High-Magnitude Discharge
Events in Late Summer in Glacierised Alpine Basins. David N. Collins
(University of Oxford).
- 7. High Frequency Passive Microwave Radiometry
over a Snow-Covered Surface. Andrew Tait (NASA/GSFC).
- 8. Algorithm Intercomparison for Accuracy
Assessment of the MODIS Snow-Mapping Algorithm. Andrew G. Klein (NASA/GSFC),
D. Hall and K. Seidel.
- 9. Estimation of Errors in Snow-Cover Mapping
in North America using Satellite Data. Dorothy K. Hall (NASA/GSFC),
J.L. Foster, V.V. Salomonson, A.G. Klein and J.Y.L. Chen.
- 10. Synoptic Patterns Influencing
Midwinter Snowmelt across the Northern Great Plains of the United States.
Andrew Grundstein and D. Leathers (University of Delaware).
- 11. Snowfall Trends in the South and Central
Appalachians 1964-1995. Suzanne Hartley (Morehead State University).
- 12. Coupled Modelling of Forest Snow Interception
and Sublimation. John Pomeroy (National Hydrology Research Centre),
N. Hedstrom, J. Parviainen and D.M. Gray.
- 13. A Comparison between Neural Network
and Multiple Regression to Develop a Transmission Line Icing Model.
Pierre McComber (École de technologie supérieure, Montréal), J. Lafontaine,
J. Laflamme, J. Druez and A. Paradis.
- Invited Presentation: Modelling Snow Processes
for Prairie, Arctic and Boreal Forest Environments. Dr. John Pomeroy
(NHRC).
- 14. Severe Flooding Associated with the
Ablation of an Anomalous Snowpack across North-Central Pennsylvania.
Daniel J. Leathers (University of Delaware).
- 15. Hydrologic Snowpack Modelling
in Southern Ontario. Steven R. Fassnacht, E.D. Soulis and N. Kouwen
(University of Waterloo).
- 16. Using Weather History to Predict Snowpack
Conditions. Dick Chisholm (Plymouth State College).
- 17. Meltwater Percolation through a Snowpack.
Gerald M. Courtin and G. Davy (Dept. of Biology, Laurentian University).
- 18. Snow Damage to Spruce in a Subartcic
Treeline Environment, Schefferville, Québec. Dany Gareau and H.B.
Granberg (U. Sherbrooke).
- 19. The Size Distribution of Snow Layers.
Austin Hogan (Piermont, NH), A.J. Gow and D. Meese.
Poster Presentations:
- P1. Connecticut Snowfall Distributions.
Mathew J. Czikowsky and R.A. Castillo (Western Connecticut State University).
- P2. Local Snow Sampling with Grade School
Children. Steven R. Fassnacht, E.D. Soulis and N. Kouwen (Dept. of
Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo).
- P3. Associations Between Spatially Autocorrelated
Patterns of SSM/I-derived Prairie Snow Cover and Atmospheric Circulation.
Chris Derksen, W. Wulder and E. LeDrew, Dept. of Geography, University of
Waterloo.
- P4. Trends in Snow Accumulation and Ablation
in a Subalpine Forested Area. Robert E. Davis (CRREL) and S.A. Burak
(Snow Survey Consultants). [ Poster withdrawn 1/06/98 ]
- P5. Rock Avalanche, Cannon Cliffs, Franconia
Notch, NH. Philip Brady and 9 others (Plymouth State College).
- P6. An Automated Procedure for Graphing
Snow Pit Stratigraphy. Ted Shultz and Mary Albert (CRREL).
- P7. Spatial Variation of Snow cover in Boreal
Forest. Robert E. Davis and J.P. Hardy (CRREL), J.R. Metcalfe and
A.E. Walker (Atmospheric Environment Service).
- P8. Large Basin Melt Prediction using Mesoscale
Meteorological Model Data. R. Melloh, G. Koenig, R. Jordan and C.
McKenzie (CRREL).
- P9. El-Niño and North American Snow Cover.
Ross Brown (Atmospheric Environment Service).