The sensitivity of modeled snow accumulation and melt to precipitation phase methods across a climatic gradient

Jennings, Keith S.; Molotch, Noah P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3765-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3765-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3765-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 9

Research article

|

18 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 18 Sep 2019

The sensitivity of modeled snow accumulation and melt to precipitation phase methods across a climatic gradient

Keith S. Jennings and Noah P. Molotch

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3765-2019-supplement

Data sets

Meteorological data from benchmark stations at the Andrews Experimental Forest, 1957 to present W. A. McKee https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/c96875918bb9c86d330a457bf4295cd9

Data from: Eleven years of mountain weather, snow, soil moisture and stream flow data from the rain-snow transition zone - the Johnston Draw catchment S. E. Godsey, D. G. Marks, P. R. Kormos, M. S. Seyfried, C. L. Enslin, J. P. McNamara, and T. E. Link https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1402076

Infilled climate data for C1, Saddle, and D1, 1990 - 2013, hourly K. Jennings, T. Kittel, and N. Molotch https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/1538ccf520d89c7a11c2c489d973b232

Snow water equivalent data for Niwot Ridge and Green Lakes Valley, 1993 - ongoing M. Williams https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f62b0a3741737c871958cf7e63c089e0

Model code and software

Scientific colour maps (Version 4.0.0) F. Crameri https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2649252

Short summary

There is a wide variety of modeling methods to designate precipitation as rain, snow, or a mix...