Articles | Volume 22, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4295-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4295-2018
Research article
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14 Aug 2018
Research article |  | 14 Aug 2018

The influence of diurnal snowmelt and transpiration on hillslope throughflow and stream response

Brett Woelber, Marco P. Maneta, Joel Harper, Kelsey G. Jencso, W. Payton Gardner, Andrew C. Wilcox, and Ignacio López-Moreno

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The hydrology of high-elevation headwaters in midlatitudes is typically dominated by snow processes, which are very sensitive to changes in energy inputs at the top of the snowpack. We present a data analyses that reveal how snowmelt and transpiration waves induced by the diurnal solar cycle generate water pressure fluctuations that propagate through the snowpack–hillslope–stream system. Changes in diurnal energy inputs alter these pressure cycles with potential ecohydrological consequences.