Western Snow Conference

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Western Snow Conference

June 8-10, 1993

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada


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Introductory Materials

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Foreword

Table of Contents

Statement of Purpose

Eastern Snow Conference Officers

President's Page

The Western Snow Conference

Western Snow Conference Officers

The General Chairperson's Page

ESC Remembrances

Executive Meeting Minutes (Not included this year)

Business Meeting Minutes (Not included this year)

Meeting Attendees (Not included this year)

Session Papers

Snow and Ice in the Publications of the Canadian Institute, 1852-1914

Adams, P.

 

Snowpack Stratigraphy Evolution at Forested and Open Sites

Albert, M.R. and J.P. Hardy

 

An Approach to Assessing Changes in Snow Cover:  An Example for the Former Soviet Union

Barry, R.G., R.L. Armstrong, and A.N. Krenke

 

Mesoscale Atmosphere Icing Event, March 1991

Bates, R.E., J.E. Fiori, D.J. Fisk, and B.G. Harrington

 

Distribution and Abundance of Microbial Biomass in Rocky Mountain Spring Snowpacks

Brooks, P.D., S.K. Schmidt, R. Sommerfield, and R. Musselman  

 

Recent Observed Trends and Modelled Interannual Variability in Canadian Snow Cover

Brown, R.D. and B.E. Goodison

 

Groundwater Temperatures during the Winter in a Forested Basin

Calkins, D.J.

 

Increasing the Precision of Snow Water Equivalent Estimates Obtained from Spatial Modeling of Airborne and Ground-Based Snow Data

Carroll, S.S. and T.R. Carroll

 

Measuring Alpine Snow Depths by Digital Photogrammetry:  Part 1. Conjugate Point Identification

Cline, D.W.

 

Aerosol Scavenging by Falling Snow

Cragin J.H. and A.D. Hewitt

 

Estimating Total Snow Volume in a Small Alpine Watershed Using Remotely Sensed Data and Ground-based Surveys

Davis, R.E., K. Elder, W. Rosenthal, J. Sickman, and J. Melack.

 

Can Avalanche Activity Alter the Pattern of Snowmelt Runoff from High-Mountain Basins?

De Scally, F.A.

 

Student Paper Award – Composition physico-chimique de la neige artificielle et les impacts des eaux de fonte sur deux especes vegetales des ecosystemes montagneux au Quebec

Devarennes, G.

 

Estimating Localized SWE on the Yellowstone Northern Range

Farnes, P.E. and W.H. Romme

 

North American Snow Cover Variability from Satellite Data (1972-1993) and Comparison with Model Output

Frei, A. and D.A. Robinson

 

River Ice Conditions Determined from ERS-1 SAR

Gatto, L.W.

 

Disaggregation Models of Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts

Grygier, J. J.R. Stedinger, Hongbing Yin, and G. Freeman

 

Snowdrift Modeling in the CRREL Wind Tunnel

Haehnel, R.B., Cpt. J.H. Wilkinson, and J.H. Lever

 

Analysis of Visible and Microwave Satellite Data for Snow Mapping in Alaska

Hall, D.K., C.S. Benson, and J.Y.L. Chien

 

Snowmelt-Induced Slushflows, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada

Hardy, D.R.

 

The Permeability of Temperature Snow:  Preliminary Links to Microstructure

Hardy, J.P. and D.G. Albert

 

Examining the Influence of Snow Cover on Morning Air Temperature

Hogan, A. and M. Ferrick

 

Snow Algae and Other Microbes in Several Alpine Areas in New England

Hoham, R.W., B. Duval, A.E. Laursen, and S.O. Clive

 

Snow Cover Variability in the Great Plains of the United States: 1910 -1988

Huges, M.G. and D.A. Robinson

 

Southern Michigan’s Snow Belt:  Modelled Impacts on Soil Temperatures and Freezing

Isard, S.A. and R.J. Schaetzl

 

Snow-Atmosphere Interactions in Artic Snowpacks: Net Fluxes of No3, SO4 and Influence of Solar Radiation

Jones, H.G., J.W. Pomeroy, T.D. Davies, P. Marsh, and M. Tranter

 

The Relationship of the Annual Snowpack to the Water Yield from the Inner Basin of the San Francisco Peaks, Arizona

Jones, R.A.

 

FMCW Radar Investigation of Snow Pack Evolution

Koh, G.

 

Relationships between Synoptic Weather Type Frequencies and Snowfall Trends in the Lee of Lakes Erie and Ontario

Leathers, D.J. and A.W. Ellis

 

The Impact of Heterogeneous Flow Paths on Snowmelt Runoff Chemistry

Marsh, P. and J.W. Pomeroy

 

An Icing Study for a Future Suspended Bridge at Montmorency Falls

McComber, P. and A. Paradis

 

Identification and Regional/Spatial Extent of Rain-Dominated Winter Storms in California’s Sierra Nevada

McGurk, B.J., N.H. Berg, and R.C. Kattelmann

 

Gridded Snow Water Equivalent Estimation Using Ground-Based and Airborne Snow Data

McManamon, A., T.L. Szeliga, R.K. Hartmen, G.N. Day, and R.T. Carroll

 

Snow Sciences in North America:  The Eastern and Western Snow Conferences in the Context of Environmental History

Mergen, B.

 

Snow Depth Mapping in Mongolia

Norton, D.C., S.J. Bolsenga, and M. Badarch

 

Cost Analysis of Snow Control Structures in Ontario

Perchanok M.S. and A. Bacchus

 

Hydrogeochemistry of Snowmelt at Rabbit Ears Pass, Rocky Mountains, Colorado

Peters N.E. and G.H. Leavesley

 

Honor Paper Award: The Use of Fractal Geometry in Modeling Intercepted Snow Accumulation and Sublimation

Pomeroy, J.W. and R.A. Schmidt

 

Proposed Artificial River Ice Damming to Induce Flooding of a Delta Ecosystem

Prowse, T.D., M.N. Demuth, and M. Peterson

 

The Developing Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Snow Cover Algorithm

Riggs, G., D. Hall, V. Salomonson, and J. Baker

 

Associations between Snow Cover Extent and Surface Air Temperature over North America

Robinson, D.A. and D.J. Leathers

 

Interactive Calibration for the SSARR Watershed Model

Rockwood, D.M. and D.W. Kuehl

 

Improving Estimates of Snowpack Water Equivalent Using Double Sampling

Rovansek, R.J., D.L. Kane, and L.D. Hinzman

 

An Automated Quality Control Procedure for the “Water Equivalent of Snow on the Ground” Measurement

Schmidlin, T.W., D.S. Wilks, and R.P. Cember

 

Application of SAR Snowcover Mapping to Hydrological Modelling of Snowmelt Runoff in Southern Ontario

Seglenieks, F., J.R. Donald, E.E. Soulis, and N. Kouwen

 

Geometry of Patchy Snowcovers

Shook, K, D.M. Gray, and J.W. Pomeroy

 

Stress Analysis of a Proposed Tunnel Under the South Pole Skiway

Sodhi, D.S., J.H. Rand, and W. Tobiasson

 

Seasonal Snowfall Totals to 1992-1993 from 1884-1885 for Oswego, New York

Sykes, Jr. R.B.

 

Selection of the Winter Representative Precipitation Station Within a Basin

Takenouchi, T.

 

Partitioning the Deposition of Winter Snowfall as a Function of Aspect on Forested Slopes

Troendle, C.A., R.A. Schmidt, and M.H. Martinez

 

Hierarchic Studies of Snow-Ecosystem Interactions:  A 100-Year Snow-Alteration Experiment

Walker, D.A., W.B. Krantz, E.E. Lewis, E.T. Price, and R.D. Tabler

 

Snowpack Storage and Release of Nitrogen in the Emerald Lake Watershed, Sierra Nevada

Williams, M.W.

 

“True Snowfall:” An Evaluation of the Double Fence Intercomparison Reference Gauge

Yang, D., J.R. Metcalfe, B.E. Goodison, and E. Mekis

 

Sno Foo and El Farsante Awards

 

50th Year Poem