esc 2024 (80th meeting waterloo on)

Front matter

01 A. Pouw, H. Kheyrollah Pour. Impact of seasonal snow accumulation on lake ice development in Canada’s sub-Arctic during 2023-24 winter season.

02 J. Dechow, M. Durand, J. Lundquist, L. Prugh, B. Sullender, C. Cunningham. Merging land surface models and snow pit data for improved snow surface density measurements for wildlife tracking purposes.

03 D. Hassan, K. Schenabel, S. Abji, E. Loder. Coupling of MDSS and AVL to achieve dynamic maintenance recommendations.

04 B. Dakin, P. Marsh, D. Rudolph, R. Thorne, B. Walker. How snow has changed over 30 year at Trail Valley Creek, and what this means for streamflow and active layer thaw.

05 M. Verfaillie, J. Jacobs. Causes of winter and spring peak streamflows in the contiguous United States.

06 N. Allet, A. Langlois, D. Kramer, B. Montpetit, J. Meloche. Advancing snow water equivalent (SWE) estimation: sensitivity testing of dual Ku-band radar system.

07 D. Pershin, D. Nadeau, M. Baraër, B. Bouchard, P.-E. Isabelle. Spatial heterogeneity in snowpack response to rain-on-snow events in a boreal forest of eastern Canada.

08 D. Hall, G. Riggs, N. DiGirolamo. How well do the NASA standard MODIS and VIIRS snow-cover products compare for creation of a climate-data record?

09 M. Woodley, M. Mahoney, J. Mills, C. Beier, S. Tuttle. Machine learning and snow temperature: snow depth estimation in a forested watershed in the Adirondack Mountains, NY.

10 N. Kanda, C. Fletcher. Evaluating a hierarchy of bias correction methods for reanalysis SWE estimates in northern Canada.

11 Z. Fair, C. Vuyovich, T. Neumann. Snow depth from spaceborne lidar: insights from ICESat-2 over the boreal forests and tundra of Alaska.

12 G. Riggs, V. Kalb, D. Hall. New VIIRS 375 m global snow product, and update on MODIS passivation and product production.

13 J. Johnston, J. Jacobs, A. Hunsaker, M. Moradi, T. Hoheneder, K. Wittmann, K. Bateman, S. Vanasse, A. Bousquet. Observing and predicting the snow microclimates of an ephemeral snowpack in southeastern New Hampshire.

14 M. Mason, C. Vuyovich, K. Elder, S. Stuefer, D. Vas, H.-P. Marshall. An overview of NASA SnowEX community-collected snow pit measurements (2017-2023).

15 E. Burakowski, J. Benes, J. Clayton, A. Contosta, A. Grunes, H. Hofman, C. McCarthy, S. McKim, G. Murray, C. Nadeau, S. Nelson, K. Phillips, E. Rowland, M. Webb. Northeast Snow Survey (NESS): a feasibility study to develop an automated snowpack and climate monitoring network in the northeast United States.

16 C. McRae-Pharo, G. Gunn. Examination of microwave backscatter of freshwater lake ice using polarimetric decomposition.

17 B. Vanden Boom, B. Perry, M. Rado, M. Andrade, L. Ticona, S. Arias. Observations of precipitation phase in the tropical High Andes of Bolivia and Peru.

18 C. Gorwill, L. Thomson. Photogrammetric historical DEM generation to support the mapping of glacier area, length, and volume change in the Canadian High Arctic.

19 H. Kim, S. Tuttle, E. Sproles. Assessing uncertainty in cosmic rat neutron sensor snow water equivalent measurements from heterogeneous snow distributions.

20 J. Meloche, N. Leroux, B. Montpetit, V. Vionnet, C. Derksen. Reducing a complex multi-layered snowpack to a radar equivalent snowpack with minimal number of layers.

21 L. Zschenderlein, R. Kelly, K. Luojus, C. Derksen, C. Mortimer. Towards understanding the impact of spatial resolution and viewing geometry on passive microwave snow retrievals.

22 W. Wang, R. Kelly, P. Toose. Sensitivity study of 13.5 GHz backscatter and snow depth at a farm site in Powassan, Ontario.

23 G. Woolley, N. Rutter, L. Wake, V. Vionnet, C. Derksen, E. Essery, P. Marsh, R. Tutton, B. Walker, M. Lafaysse, D. Pritchard. Multi-physics ensemble modelling of Arctic tundra and taiga snowpack properties.

24 T. Herrington, A. Erler, C. Fletcher. Bias-correction of ERA5-Land and FLDAS reanalysis-based soil temperature using machine learning.

25 S. Guest, L. Thomson, A. Criscitiello. Determining summer accumulation and seasonal precipitation sources and pathways in the western Queen Elizabeth Islands: case study at White Glacier on Umingmat Nunnat (Axel Heiberg Island), NU.

26 A. Mansingh, C. Duguay, G. Gunn. Assessment of ERA5-Land lake ice related variables from satellite observations.

27 A. Rafat, H. Kheyrollah Pour, C. Spence, M. Palmer. A field study: in situ observations of lake ice break-up processes.

28 A. Richards, F. Ouellet, E. Boisvert-Vigneault, A. Langlois. Advancing snow modelling across Canada from the Arctic to southern regions.

29 B. Wark. Remote sensing and cloud computing: creating Canada-wide lake ice phenology products using Google Earth Engine and Sentinel-1 SAR imagery.

30 J. Ferguson, G. Gunn. Interferometric and polarimetric analysis of SAR freshwater lake ice acquisitions.

31 H. Yao, C. McConnell, R. Fernandes, A. Beaton, T. Field, A. James, S. Fassnacht. Comparing four monitoring methods of snow depth at Dorset, Ontario, Canada.

32 J. Finlayson, K. Chutko. Spatial and temporal variability of 2023 hail precipitation in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

33 D. Hall, B. Loomis, N. DiGirolamo, B. Forman. Groundwater loss continues in the Great Basin of the western United States, despite annual replenishment by snow.

34 C. Bayer, V. Vionnet, B. Bilodeau, M. Carrera, N. Leroux, V. Fortin. Towards improving the Canadian Land Data Assimilation System (CaLDAS) for reliable snow products in support of the Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission (TSMM).

35 A. Langlois, N. Marchard. Empowering tomorrow’s climate science: the university consortium for the Canadian Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission (TSMM).

36 J. Fatt. Estimating lake-ice thickness using Sentinel-3B SRAL: a case study on Kluane Lake.

37 J. Ramage, M. Boueshagh, M. Brodzik, M. Hardman. Optimized pixel-specific snow melt detection process and assessment for calibrated enhanced-resolution brightness temperatures (CETB).

38 S. Dezyani, G. Gunn. Evaluating RADARSAT constellation mission data for the retrieval of lake ice melt events over sub-arctic regions in Canada.

39 Q. Li, R. Kelly. Improving passive microwave estimation of snow-covered land surface temperature.

40 M. Myers, P. Doran, K. Myers. Role of snow in reducing underwater photosynthetically active radiation in ice-covered lakes.

41 S. Tuttle, C. Beier, J. Mills, G. Gunn, I. Halm, A. Morales-Williams, H. Pritchard. Snowfall from lake water pressure: results from four lakes in humid continental climate.

42 A. Elias Chereque, P. Kushner, C. Derksen, L. Mudryk. New estimates of decreasing September-March snow cover from multi-dataset analysis.

43 J. Welch. Large scale tundra snow density estimates from passive microwave remote sensing.

44 G. Attiah, H. Kheyrollah Pour, A. Scott. Spatially distributed modelling of lake ice thickness trends and distribution in the North Slave region, NWT.

45 W. Cheung, L. Thomson. Leveraging satellite imagery and machine learning to track equilibrium line altitude and surface mass balance trends in Auyuittuq National Park, Canadian Arctic.

46 B. Montpetit, C. Derksen, V. Vionnet, M. Carrera, J. Meloche, N. Leroux, M. Brady, P. Toose, V. Fortin, C. Bayer, S. Bélair, R. Kelly, A. Langlois, P. Siqueira, A. Thompson, N. Allet, J. Bergeron, P. Plourde, R. Girard. Status and progress of the Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission.

47 P. Siqueira, M. Adam, M. Closa Tarres, E. Sutherland, J. Maloyan, T. Seaver, H.-P. Marshall, E. Deeb, K. Elder. SNOWWI - A three frequency SAR and InSAR for measuring snow characteristics: early results from the 2023-24 season Grand Mesa campaign.

48 C. Mortimer, V. Vionnet. A new in situ snow water equivalent dataset for the Northern Hemisphere.

49 É. Bresson, P. Bourgault, É. Dupuis. Climate scenarios of snow water equivalent indices for southern Québec.

50 N. Leroux, V. Vionnet, G. Mazzotti. Simulations of snow internal properties in forested environments.

51 C. Vuyovich, M. Wrzesien, S. Kumar, E. Gutmann, K.-S. Kuo, P. Grogan, B. Osmanoglu, M. Carroll, M. Bauer, D.-H. Ton That, N. Griessbaum, B. Rosenberg, J. Tapia, H. Banafsheh. A new snow observing strategy in support of hydrological science and applications.

52 R. Thorne, B. Walker, A. Fogal, R. Tutton, P. Marsh. Snow distribution and permafrost degradation at an ice-wedge polygon site in the western Canadian Arctic.

53 B. Walker, B. Dakin, A. Singh, P. Marsh. High-resolution drone mapping of snow water storage in a post-fire tundra landscape.

54 P. Toose, B. Montpetit, J. Meloche, A. Gélinas, M. Davey, A. Silis, C. Derksen, R. Kelly. Deriving high-resolution snow depth maps and soil roughness parameters from unpiloted aerial systems (UAS) equipped with lidar for modeling and validating airborne radar Ku- and L-band backscatter contributions.

Sno-Foo Award