Proceedings of the the 67th Annual Eastern Snow Conference

Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, Hancock, MA
June 8-10, 2010

Below are the papers that are being presented at this year's annual meeting. They will be posted as they are received.
All papers are available as Adobe Acrobat files and Adobe Acrobat can be downloaded by following the link below.

Table of Contents

AR4 Climate Model performance in simulating snowpack over Catskill Mountain watersheds
A. Anandhi, S. Pradhanang, D. Pierson, A. Frei, E. Schneiderman, M. Zion, R. Mukundan, A. Matonse, J.Porter, D. Lounsbury, and D. Kent

Changes in Snowmelt and the Timing of Runoff:  Consequences for NYC Reservoir Nutrient Loading and Trophic Status
D. Pierson, H. Markensten, E. Owens, E. Schneiderman, M. Zion, A. Anandhi,  S. Pradhanang, A. Matonse and  D. Kent

Investigation of the impacts of climate change on the timing and magnitude of winter streamflow for the Catskill Mountain Region
M. Zion, S. Pradhanang, D. Pierson, D. Fuka, Z. Easton,T. Walter, T. Steeenhuis, E. Schneiderman, D. Lounsbury, A. Anandhi, A. Frei, A. Matonse, R. Mukundan Donald P. Kent, and J. Porter

Quantitative Comparison of Two National Weather Service Snow Models in the New York City Reservoir Watersheds
C. Reilly, M. Schaeffner and J. Porter

Cost-Effective Snowpack Measurements at the Harvard Forest LTER Site
R. Hellstrom

Spatiotemporal Distribution of All-wave Radiation in Discontinuous Canopies with Application to Snowmelt Prediction
T. Link and R. Lawler

Canopy Interception-Evaporation Variation with Climate
R. Melloh, J. Campbell and S. Frankenstein

Spatial and temporal trends of snowmelt at an extensive High Arctic wetland
J. Assini and K. Young

Weisnet Award Talk
Spatial and temporal characteristics of the river ice break-up season in Canada
S.von de Wal, L. de Rham and T. Prowse

Ku and x-band scatterometer observations of terrestrial and lake ice snow
J. King, R. Kelly,C. Duguay, C. Derksen, P. Toose, A. Silis, A. Royer and A. Langlois
Estimating ice thickness on large northern lakes from passive microwave satellite data
K. Kang, C. Duguay, and A. Kouraev

Improvement of simulated passive microwave brightness temperatures using airborne radiometer measurements for Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) retrieval
A. Langlois, A. Royer and K. Goita

Assessing the implications of ski area development for snow distribution and runoff production during snowmelt in northern New England, USA
B. Wemple, J. Shanley

Pan-arctic seasonal trend detection in daily GlobSnow snow water equivalent against NTSG AMSR-E derived vegetation microwave transmittance and surface soil moisture
K. Luus,C.Duguay, R. Kelly, J. Lin and Y. Gel

Satellite-Derived Snow Maps from the 2009-2010 Snow Season in North Carolina
D. Hall, J. Foster, C. Fuhrmann, B. Perry, G. Riggs, D. Robinson

Spatial Patterns of Snowfall in North Carolina: Surface and Satellite Perspectives
C. Fuhrman, D. Hall and B. Perry

Overview of the 2009-2010 Snow Season in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
B. Perry, D. Hotz,S. Keigton, L. Lee, J. Dobson, D. Hall and C. Konrad

A 16-year Climatology of Ice Storms in WFO Albany's County Warning Area and a Comparison of Two Recent Events
J. Quinlan and K. Lipton

Comparison of optical based snow extent observations during Winter and Spring over North America
A. Frei and S. Lee

Local scale estimates of snowpack properties from near infrared photography measurements
N.Steiner

Not so fast:  Given up for dead, Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent makes a comeback in the fall and winter of 2009/10
J. Cohen and J. Foster

Melt energetics of twenty-five years of distributed, physically-based snowcover simulations in a small headwater catchment in the semi-arid western United States
M. Reba, D. Marks and A. Winstral

Projections of Air Temperatures and Melt Season Duration for McMurdo
J. Weatherly and J. Helble

Characterizing the Microstructural Evolution of both Natural Snow Crystals and Spherical Ice Particles
S. Chen and I. Baker

The 2009 and 2010 Ground Passive and Active Snow (GAPS) Experiments
M. Tedesco, H. Marshall, N. Steiner, E. Josberger, X. Xu, S. Evans, T. Painter and M. Skiles

Evolution of firn layers over time 
Z. Courville, M. Albert and E. Willimason

Impact of glacier retreat on Skykomish River Hydrology
M. Pelto

Snow and firn density variability in West Central Greenland
V. Zagrodnov, E. Mosley-Thompson and V. Mikhalenko

Microstructural Characterization of Winter and Summer Layers of Summit, Greenland Firn
K. Keegan, R. Lomonaco, M. Albert, and I. Baker

Investigating Impact of Basal Topography on Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Morphology and Supraglacial Lake Distribution
J. Vanderberg

Glacier Hydrology: 2009 North Cascade Glacier Climate Project Field Season
B. Pelto

Polar Lessons for the IPY from the IGY:  Some Canadian examples
M. Ecclestone, P. Adams and G. Cogley
Analyzing RADARSAT-1 imagery to determine variability and trends in ice cover on shallow lakes near Churchill, Manitoba
N. Svacina and C. Duguay

Enhanced MODIS Snow Cover Mapping from Decision Tree Technique
G. Riggs

Satellite identification of snowline variation during the melt season in mass balance assessment Taku and Brady Glacier, Alaska
M. Pelto

Climate Change Impacts on Snow and Water Resources in the United States: A Synthesis Report for the US Army Corps of Engineers
J.Weatherly and others

The Winter Season of 2009-2010 in the Southeast United States
C. Fuhrmann, C. Konrad II, and W. Schmitz

Changes in Snowmelt and the Timing of Runoff
A. Matonse, M. Zion, A. Anandhi, D. Pierson, A. Frei, E. Schneiderman, D. Lounsbury, S. Pradhanang, R. Mukundan, and D. Kent

Spatial variability of snowpack in Catskill Mountain watersheds: an assessment using the USDA-SWAT Watershed Model and snow survey data
S. Pradnahang, A. Anandhi, D. Pierson, E. Schneiderman, M. Zion, J. Porter , R.Mukundan, A. Matonse,  D. Lounsbury, and D. Kent
Application of Snow Core and Automated Remote Data Collection to Monitor SWE in NYC’s Drinking Watershed
G. Horton and J. Porter
The Edmonton Journal and  La Presse Newspaper (1959-2006): a comparison in delivering the message of winter in Canada
J. Toupin
Impacts of Complex Terrain on Hydrometeorological Processes within a Tropical Alpine Valley in the Peruvian Andes
R. Hellstrom, B. Mark, A. Higgins, and D. Ferris
Observations of the Vertical Structure of NWFS during a Warm-Phase ENSO Winter 
L’Heureux, B. Perry and D. Miller
Snowfall in Semi-arid Regions: the Influence of Climate Change and Variability
S. Fassnacht, K. Jamiyansharav, and S.  Stevenson

Examining algorithm performance for passive microwave observations in the mountains of the central Yukon
A. Kasurek
A physically-based approach to improving estimates of snow states and fluxes in a conifer forest of Sequoia National Park
K. Musselman, N.Molotch and S.Margulis
Evaluation of soil freezing on the quantity and source of carbon and nitrogen in leachate during snowmelt
J. Campbell, P. Templer and A. Reinmann
An Economical Approach to Automated Snow Depth Observations
S. Helfrich, B. Jackson, W. Ryan, P. Clemente-Colón
Snow Depth and Lake Ice Phenology from Full-Waveform ICESat/GLAS Data
J. Oldham and R.Kelly


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