Western Snow Conference

Proceedings of the 73rd Annual Western Snow Conference

April 11-14, 2005

Great Falls, Montana

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Introductory Materials

Cover Page

Title Page

Table of Contents

Executive Meeting Minutes

Business Meeting Minutes

Meeting Attendees

Papers

Satellite Remote Sensing of Snow:  Opportunities and Challenges for Operational Hydrology and for the Research Community

Bales, R., R. Hartman, T. Pagano, and M. Roos

 

The Documentation of Extreme Events: Two Case Studies in Utah, Water Year 2005

Bardsley, T. and R. Julander

 

Interpolating Surface Air Temperature for Use in a Semi-distributed Snowmelt Runoff Models

Blandford, T., B. Harshburger, K. Humes, V. Walden and B. Moore

 

A Simple GIS-Based Snow Accumulation and Melt Model

Brooks, J. and J. Boll

 

Evaluation of Gridded Snow Water Equivalent and Satellite Snowcover Products For Mountain Basins in a Hydrologic Model

Dressler, K., G. Leavesley, R. Bales and S. Fassnacht

 

Climate Change in Montana

Farnes, P.

 

Evaluation of Enhancements to the Snowmelt Runoff Model

Harshburger, B., T. Blandford, K. Humes, V. Walden and B. Moore

 

An Analysis of the Timing of Snow Course Measurement and the Potential Error Compared to April 1 Measurement in Utah

Julander, R.

 

Soil Type and Site Location Impacts on Soil Moisture Data Collection at High-Elevation SNOTEL Sites

Julander, R. and J. Holcombe

 

SNOTEL Representativeness in the Rio Grande Headwaters using Remotely Sensed Snow Covered Area Data and Energy Balance Modeling

Molotch, N. and R. Bales

 

Operational Simulation Modeling at the NRCS National Water and Climate Center

Pagano, J. Erxleben and T. Perkins

 

AgriMet:  Modeling Evapotranspiration for Irrigation Water Management

Palmer, P.

 

Weather, Water and Climate of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806)

Preston, V.

 

Testing the Crocus Snowpack Model in a High-Latitude Maritime Snow Climate Using Remote Data Collection Methods

Shallies, W., E. Knuth and E. Hood

 

IRIS:  An Informational River and Reservoir Simulation Display

Swank, L. and R. Abramovich

 

Using the WinWrnsHyd Program as a Didactic Tool

Swanson, R.

 

Perception of Winter from Children and Teenagers in Alberta, Canada:  A Case Study of Edmonton and Plamondon

Toupin, J.

 

Physically-Based Point Snowmelt Model Application and its Spatial Distribution with Radiation Index Method in Turkey

Sensoy, A., A. Sorman, A. Tekeli, A. Sorman and D. Garen

 

Salinity, Snow, and Salvation

Steppuhn, H.