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Snow Hydrology
Overview
Syllabus: CEWA 568
Course Project: CEWA 568
Modules
1) Properties of Snow
2) Measurement Strategies, Basics of the Snowpack Mass and Energy Balances, and Snowpack Dynamics
3) Snowpack Energy Balance – Radiation + Albedo, Dust on Snow
Lab 3-1: Surface Energy Balance at Kettle Ponds - Radiation Balance
Lab 3-2: Plotting the Surface Energy Balance at Kettle Ponds
4) Temperatures: snowpack and atmospheric stability
Intuition about the heat equation - Brownian Motion
Lab 4-1: Snowpack temperature profiles
Lab 4-2: Snowpack internal energy - completing the snowpack energy balance
Lab 4-3: Snowpack temperature and density profiles - snowpit data
Lab 4-4: Atmospheric temperatures and stability
5) Turbulent transport - momentum, heat, and moisture fluxes above the snow covered earth
Lab 5-1: Turbulent fluxes and measures of stability
Lab 5-2: Water vapor fluxes at Kettle Ponds
Lab 5-3: Mixing length theory at Kettle Ponds
6) Blowing snow transport and sublimation
Lab 6-1: Blowing snow fluxes, wind speed, and shear velocity
Lab 6-2: Blowing snow - snow redistribution on the landscape scale
Lab 6-3: Blowing snow - snow redistribution on the site scale
7) Snow melt
Lab 7-1: Snowpack ripening and melt initiation - Observations
Lab 7-2: Snowpack ripening and melt initiation - Energy Balance
Lab 7-3 - Predicting snowmelt rates with the Temperature-Index method
8) Snow-dominated watershed hydrology
Lab 8-1: Predicting streamflow with the SWE regression method
Lab 8-2: Modeling a snowpack with a gridded, numerical model - openAMUNDSEN
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