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Mountain and Arctic snow and ice research, Canadian focus
2024
Hanly, K. & McDowell, G. (2024) The Evolution of ‘Riskscapes’: 100 years of climate change and mountaineering activity in the Lake Louise area of the Canadian Rockies. Climatic Change 177(49). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03698-2
Gottlieb, A. R., & Mankin, J. S. (2024). Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss. Nature, 625(7994), 293-300. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06794-y
Menounos, B., Gardner, A., Forentine, C., & Fountain, A. (2024). Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry. The Cryosphere, 18(2), 889-894. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-889-2024
2023
Hanly, K., McDowell, G., Tricker, J. (2023) Climbing through climate change in the Canadian Rockies: Guides’ experiences of route transformation on Mt. Athabasca. Tourism and Hospitality. 4(4) 539-558. https://doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp4040033
Staines, J., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2023). Influence of forest canopy structure and wind flow on patterns of sub‐canopy snow accumulation in montane needleleaf forests. Hydrological Processes, 37(10), e15005. staines_pomeroy_2023.pdf
Rohanizadegan, M., Petrone, R. M., Pomeroy, J. W., Kosovic, B., Muñoz‐Esparza, D., & Helgason, W. D. (2023). High‐Resolution Large‐Eddy Simulations of Flow in the Complex Terrain of the Canadian Rockies. Earth and Space Science, 10(10), e2023EA003166. rohanizadegan_et-al_2023.pdf
Fang, X., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2023). Simulation of the impact of future changes in climate on the hydrology of Bow River headwater basins in the Canadian Rockies. Journal of Hydrology, 620, 129566. fang_pomeroy_2023.pdf
Marsh, C., Vionnet, V., & Pomeroy, J. (2022). The Canadian Hydrological Model: A New Way to Estimate Snowpacks in the Canadian Rockies. Harvest, University of Saskatchewan. marsh_et-al_2023_3.pdf
Gascoin, S. (2023). A call for an accurate presentation of glaciers as water resources. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, e1705. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1705
Rounce, D. R., Hock, R., Maussion, F., Hugonnet, R., Kochtitzky, W., Huss, M., Berthier, E., Brinkerhoff, D., Compagno, L., Copland, L., Farinotti, D., Menounos, B., & McNabb, R. W. (2023). Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters. Science, 379(6627), 78–83. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo1324
Szeitz, A.J. and Moore, R.D. (2023). Modelling snowpack bulk density using snow depth, cumulative degree-days, and climatological predictor variables. Hydrological Processes 37, e14800, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14800
2022
Wheater, H. S., Pomeroy, J. W., Pietroniro, A., Davison, B., Elshamy, M., Yassin, F., ... & Bahrami, A. (2022). Advances in modelling large river basins in cold regions with Modélisation Environmentale Communautaire—Surface and Hydrology (MESH), the Canadian hydrological land surface scheme. Hydrological Processes, 36(4), e14557. wheater_et_al_2022.pdf
Rasouli, K., Pomeroy, J. W., & Whitfield, P. H. (2022). The sensitivity of snow hydrology to changes in air temperature and precipitation in three North American headwater basins. Journal of Hydrology, 606, 127460. rasouli_et_al_2022.pdf
Pradhananga, D., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2022). Recent hydrological response of glaciers in the Canadian Rockies to changing climate and glacier configuration. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(10), 2605-2616. pradhananga_pomeroy_2022_2.pdf
Pomeroy, J. W., Brown, T., Fang, X., Shook, K. R., Pradhananga, D., Armstrong, R., ... & Moreno, J. L. (2022). The Cold Regions Hydrological Modelling Platform for hydrological diagnosis and prediction based on process understanding. Journal of Hydrology, 615, 128711. pomeroy_et-al_2022.pdf
Aubry‐Wake, C., Pradhananga, D., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2022). Hydrological process controls on streamflow variability in a glacierized headwater basin. Hydrological Processes, 36(10), e14731. aubry-wake_et-al_2022_2.pdf
Bertoncini, A., Aubry-Wake, C., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2022). Large-area high spatial resolution albedo retrievals from remote sensing for use in assessing the impact of wildfire soot deposition on high mountain snow and ice melt. Remote Sensing of Environment, 278, 113101. Bertonicini_et_al_2022.pdf
Aubry-Wake, C., Lamontagne-Hallé, P., Baraër, M., McKenzie, J. M., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2022). Using ground-based thermal imagery to estimate debris thickness over glacial ice: fieldwork considerations to improve the effectiveness. Journal of Glaciology, 69(274), 353-369. aubry-wake_et-al_2022.pdf
Bevington, A. R., & Menounos, B. (2022). Accelerated change in the glaciated environments of western Canada revealed through trend analysis of optical satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 270, 112862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112862
Bird, L.M., Moyer, A., Moore, R.D.and Koppes, M. (2022). Hydrology and thermal regime of an ice-contact proglacial lake: implications for stream temperature and lake evaporation. Hydrological Processes 36(4), e14566, https://doi.org/10.1002/HYP.14566.
Geertsema, M., Menounos, B., Bullard, G., Carrivick, J. L., Clague, J. J., Dai, C., ... & Sharp, M. A. (2022). The 28 November 2020 landslide, tsunami, and outburst flood–A hazard cascade associated with rapid deglaciation at Elliot Creek, British Columbia, Canada. Geophysical research letters, 49(6), e2021GL096716. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096716
Kinnard, C., Larouche, O., Demuth, M. N., & Menounos, B. (2022). Modelling glacier mass balance and climate sensitivity in the context of sparse observations: application to Saskatchewan Glacier, western Canada. The Cryosphere, 16(8), 3071-3099. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3071-2022
Mortezapour, M., Menounos, B., Jackson, P. L., & Erler, A. R. (2022). Future snow changes over the Columbia mountains, Canada, using a distributed snow model. Climatic Change, 172(1-2), 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03360-9
Mukherjee, K., Menounos, B., Shea, J., Mortezapour, M., Ednie, M., & Demuth, M. N. (2023). Evaluation of surface mass-balance records using geodetic data and physically-based modelling, Place and Peyto glaciers, western Canada. Journal of Glaciology, 69(276), 665-682. doi:10.1017/jog.2022.83
2021
Whitfield, P. H., Kraaijenbrink, P. D., Shook, K. R., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2021). The spatial extent of hydrological and landscape changes across the mountains and prairies of Canada in the Mackenzie and Nelson River basins based on data from a warm-season time window. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(5), 2513-2541. whitfield-p.h._et_al_2021.pdf
Vionnet, V., Marsh, C. B., Menounos, B., Gascoin, S., Wayand, N. E., Shea, J., ... & Pomeroy, J. W. (2021). Multi-scale snowdrift-permitting modelling of mountain snowpack. The Cryosphere, 15(2), 743-769. vionnet_et-al_2021.pdf
Shea, J. M., Whitfield, P. H., Fang, X., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2021). The role of basin geometry in mountain snowpack responses to climate change. Frontiers in Water, 3, 604275. shea-j.m._et_al_2021.pdf
Pradhananga, D., Pomeroy, J. W., Aubry-Wake, C., Munro, D. S., Shea, J., Demuth, M. N., ... & Mukherjee, K. (2020). Hydrometeorological, glaciological and geospatial research data from the Peyto Glacier Research Basin in the Canadian Rockies. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 2020, 1-35. pradhananga-d._et_al_2021.pdf
Kinar, N. J., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2021). Measurement of Terrestrial Snow. Oxford University Press. kinar-n.j._pomeroy-j.w._2021.pdf
DeBeer, C. M., Wheater, H. S., Pomeroy, J. W., Barr, A. G., Baltzer, J. L., Johnstone, J. F., ... & Pietroniro, A. (2021). Summary and synthesis of Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) research in the interior of western Canada–Part 2: Future change in cryosphere, vegetation, and hydrology. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(4), 1849-1882. debeer-c.m._et_al_2021.pdf
Carey, M., McDowell, G., Huggel, C., Marshall, B., Moulton, H., Portocarrero, C., Provant, Z., Reynolds, J. M., & Vicuña, L. (2021). Chapter 8—A socio-cryospheric systems approach to glacier hazards, glacier runoff variability, and climate change. In W. Haeberli & C. Whiteman (Eds.), Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (Second Edition) (pp. 215–257). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817129-5.00018-4
Chiarle, M., Geertsema, M., Mortara, G., & Clague, J. J. (2021). Relations between climate change and mass movement: Perspectives from the Canadian Cordillera and the European Alps. Global and Planetary Change, 202, 103499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103499
Kinnard, C., Larouche, O., Demuth, M. N., & Menounos, B. (2021). Mass balance modelling and climate sensitivity of Saskatchewan Glacier, western Canada. Cryosphere Discuss, 1-38. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-109
Pelto, B. M., & Menounos, B. (2021). Surface mass-balance gradients from elevation and ice flux data in the Columbia Basin, Canada. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 675681. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.675681
2020
Fang, X., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2020). Diagnosis of future changes in hydrology for a Canadian Rockies headwater basin. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(5), 2731-2754. fang_pomeroy_2020.pdf
Essery, R., Kim, H., Wang, L., Bartlett, P., Boone, A., Brutel-Vuilmet, C., ... & Yuan, H. (2020). Snow cover duration trends observed at sites and predicted by multiple models. The Cryosphere, 14(12), 4687-4698. essery-r._et_al_2020.pdf
Marsh, C. B., Pomeroy, J. W., & Wheater, H. S. (2020). The Canadian Hydrological Model (CHM) v1. 0: a multi-scale, multi-extent, variable-complexity hydrological model–design and overview. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(1), 225-247. Marsh_et_al_2020.pdf
Harder, P., Pomeroy, J. W., & Helgason, W. D. (2020). Improving sub-canopy snow depth mapping with unmanned aerial vehicles: lidar versus structure-from-motion techniques. The Cryosphere, 14(6), 1919-1935. Harder_et_al_2020.pdf
Adler, C., Balsiger, J., Grêt-Regamey, A., Heinimann, A., Huggel, C., Weingartner, R., ... & Xu, J. (2020). Making connections for our changing mountains: Future directions for the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI). Mountain Research and Development, 40(3), P1. https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-20-00045.1
Friele, P., Millard, T. H., Mitchell, A., Allstadt, K. E., Menounos, B., Geertsema, M., & Clague, J. J. (2020). Observations on the May 2019 Joffre Peak landslides, British Columbia. Landslides, 17, 913-930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-019-01332-2
Menounos, B. and Pelto, B. (2020). Glaciers in the Canadian Columbia Basin. Technical Report. Parks Canada, Government of Canada. http://parkscanadahistory.com/publications/glacier/ca-columbia-basin-glaciers-2020.pdf
Moore, R.D., Pelto, B., Menounos, B. and Hutchinson, D. (2020). Detecting the effects of sustained glacier wastage on streamflow in variably glacierized catchments. Frontiers in Earth Science 8: 136. DOI:10.3389/feart.2020.00136
Williamson, S. N., Zdanowicz, C., Anslow, F. S., Clarke, G. K., Copland, L., Danby, R. K., ... & Hik, D. S. (2020). Evidence for elevation-dependent warming in the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada. Journal of Climate, 33(8), 3253-3269. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0405.1
Winter-Billington, A., Moore, R.D. and Dadic, R. (2020). Evaluating the transferability of empirical models of debris-covered glacier melt. Journal of Glaciology 66(260): 978–995. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.57.
2019
Stewart, R. E., Szeto, K. K., Bonsal, B. R., Hanesiak, J. M., Kochtubajda, B., Li, Y., ... & Matte, D. (2019). Summary and synthesis of Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) research in the interior of western Canada–Part 1: Projected climate and meteorology. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(8), 3437-3455. stewart_et_al_2019.pdf
Castellazzi, P., Burgess, D., Rivera, A., Huang, J., Longuevergne, L., & Demuth, M. N. (2019). Glacial melt and potential impacts on water resources in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Water Resources Research, 55(12), 10191-10217. DOI10.1029/2018WR024295
Rasouli, K., Pomeroy, J. W., & Whitfield, P. H. (2019). Hydrological responses of headwater basins to monthly perturbed climate in the North American Cordillera. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 20(5), 863-882. rasouli_et_al_2019_2.pdf
2018
Wayand, N. E., Marsh, C. B., Shea, J. M., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2018). Globally scalable alpine snow metrics. Remote Sensing of Environment, 213, 61-72. Wayand_et_al_2018.pdf
2017
Lv, Z., Pomeroy, J. W., & Fang, X. (2019). Evaluation of SNODAS snow water equivalent in western Canada and assimilation into a Cold Region Hydrological Model. Water Resources Research, 55(12), 11166-11187. musselman_pomeroy_2017.pdf
DeBeer, C. M., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2017). Influence of snowpack and melt energy heterogeneity on snow cover depletion and snowmelt runoff simulation in a cold mountain environment. Journal of hydrology, 553, 199-213. debeer_pomeroy_2017.pdf
Demuth, M., & Horne, G. (2017). Decadal-centenary glacier mass changes and their variability, Jasper National Park of Canada, Alberta, including the Columbia Icefield region. Natural Resources Canada. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/rncan-nrcan/M183-2/M183-2-8229-eng.pdf
Luckman, B. H. (2017). Glacier Landscapes in the Canadian Rockies. In O. Slaymaker (Ed.), Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada (pp. 241–255). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44595-3_17
Trubilowicz, J.W. and Moore, R.D. (2017). Quantifying the role of the snowpack in generating water available for runoff during rain-on-snow events from snow pillow data. Hydrological Processes 31: 4136-4150, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11310.
2016
Rothwell, R., Hillman, G., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2016). Marmot creek experimental watershed study. The Forestry Chronicle, 92(1), 32-36. rothwell_et_al_2016.pdf
DeBeer, C. M., Wheater, H. S., Carey, S. K., & Chun, K. P. (2016). Recent climatic, cryospheric, and hydrological changes over the interior of western Canada: A review and synthesis. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20(4), 1573–1598. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1573-2016
Demuth, M.N. and Ednie, M. (2016). A Glacier Condition and Thresholding Rubric for use in Assessing Protected Area / Ecosystem Functioning. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8031, 53p. doi:10.4095/297892
Gilbert, A., Flowers, G. E., Miller, G. H., Rabus, B. T., Van Wychen, W., Gardner, A. S., & Copland, L. (2016). Sensitivity of Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada, to climate state and internal dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 121(8), 1516-1539. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JF003839
Pelto, M. (2016). Interior Ranges, British Columbia/Alberta. In Recent Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers (pp. 129–151). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119068150.ch9
Pomeroy, J. W., Fang, X Pomeroy, J. W., Fang, X., & Marks, D. G. (2016). The cold rain‐on‐snow event of June 2013 in the Canadian Rockies—Characteristics and diagnosis. Hydrological Processes, 30(17), 2899-2914. pomeroy_et_al_2016.pdf
Fang, X., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2016). Impact of antecedent conditions on simulations of a flood in a mountain headwater basin. Hydrological Processes, 30(16), 2754-2772. fang_pomeroy_2016.pdf
2015
Pomeroy, J. W., Fang, X. I. N. G., & Rasouli, K. A. B. I. R. (2015, June). Sensitivity of snow processes to warming in the Canadian Rockies. In Proceedings of the 72nd Eastern Snow Conference (pp. 9-11). pomeroy_et_al_2015.pdf
Musselman, K. N., Pomeroy, J. W., Essery, R. L., & Leroux, N. (2015). Impact of windflow calculations on simulations of alpine snow accumulation, redistribution and ablation. Hydrological Processes, 29(18), 3983-3999. musselman_et_al_2015.pdf
Musselman, K. N., Pomeroy, J. W., & Link, T. E. (2015). Variability in shortwave irradiance caused by forest gaps: Measurements, modelling, and implications for snow energetics. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 207, 69-82. musselman_et_al_2015_2.pdf
Harder, P., Pomeroy, J. W., & Westbrook, C. J. (2015). Hydrological resilience of a Canadian Rockies headwaters basin subject to changing climate, extreme weather, and forest management. Hydrological Processes, 29(18), 3905-3924. harder_et_al_2015.pdf
Beedle, M. J., Menounos, B., & Wheate, R. (2015). Glacier change in the Cariboo Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. The Cryosphere, 9(1), 65–80. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-65-2015
Clarke, G. K. C., Jarosch, A. H., Anslow, F. S., Radić, V., & Menounos, B. (2015). Projected deglaciation of western Canada in the twenty-first century. Nature Geoscience, 8(5), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2407
Flowers, G. E. (2015). Modelling water flow under glaciers and ice sheets. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 471(2176), 20140907. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2014.0907
2014
Bash, E. A., & Marshall, S. J. (2014). Estimation of glacial melt contributions to the Bow River, Alberta, Canada, using a radiation-temperature melt model. Annals of Glaciology, 55(66), 138-152. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014AoG66A226
Demuth, M. N., Wilson, P., & Haggarty, D. (2014). Glaciers of the Ragged Range, Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories, Canada. In Global land ice measurements from space (pp. 375-383). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79818-7_16
Flowers, G. E., Copland, L., & Schoof, C. G. (2014). Contemporary glacier processes and global change: recent observations from Kaskawulsh Glacier and the Donjek Range, St. Elias Mountains. Arctic, 22-34. https://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic4356
Marshall, S. J. (2014). Meltwater run-off from Haig Glacier, Canadian Rocky Mountains, 2002–2013. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18(12), 5181-5200. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-5181-2014
Sharp, M., Burgess, D. O., Cawkwell, F., Copland, L., Davis, J. A., Dowdeswell, E. K., ... & Wyatt, F. (2014). Remote sensing of recent glacier changes in the Canadian Arctic. Global land ice measurements from space, 205-228. pdf
2013
Grünewald, T., Stötter, J., Pomeroy, J. W., Dadic, R., Moreno Baños, I., Marturià, J., ... & Lehning, M. (2013). Statistical modelling of the snow depth distribution in open alpine terrain. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17(8), 3005-3021. grünewald_et_al_2013.pdf
Fang, X., Pomeroy, J. W., Ellis, C. R., MacDonald, M. K., DeBeer, C. M., & Brown, T. (2013). Multi-variable evaluation of hydrological model predictions for a headwater basin in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17(4), 1635-1659. fang_et_al_2013.pdf
Hirose, J. M. R., & Marshall, S. J. (2013). Glacier meltwater contributions and glaciometeorological regime of the Illecillewaet River basin, British Columbia, Canada. Atmosphere-ocean, 51(4), 416-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2013.791614
Gascon, G., Sharp, M. and Bush, A.B.G. 2013. Changes in melt season characteristics on the Devon Ice Cap, Canada, and their association with the Arctic atmospheric circulation. Annals of Glaciology 54, 101-110. doi:10.3189/2013AoG63A601
Tennant, C., & Menounos, B. (2013). Glacier change of the Columbia Icefield, Canadian Rocky Mountains, 1919–2009. Journal of Glaciology, 59(216), 671–686. https://doi.org/10.3189/2013JoG12J135
2012
Brown, R., Lemay, M., Allard, M., Barrand, N. E., Barrette, C., Bégin, Y., ... & Way, R. (2012). Climate variability and change in the Canadian Eastern Subarctic IRIS region (Nunavik and Nunatsiavut). Nunavik and Nunatsiavut: From science to policy. An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of climate change and modernization, 57-93. ArcticNet Inc., Quebec City, Canada. 302pp.
Clague, J. J., Huggel, C., Korup, O., & McGuire, B. (2012). Climate change and hazardous processes in high mountains. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 69(3), 328-338. https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-77920
Demuth, M. (2012). Becoming Water: Glaciers in a Warming World. Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
Tennant, C., Menounos, B., Wheate, R. and Clague, J. (2012): Area change of glaciers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 1919 to 2006; The Cryosphere, v. 6, p. 1541–1552. doi:10.5194/tc-6-1541-2012
2011
Marshall, S. J. (2011). The cryosphere (Vol. 2). Princeton University Press.
Marshall, S. J., White, E. C., Demuth, M. N., Bolch, T., Wheate, R., Menounos, B., ... & Shea, J. M. (2011). Glacier water resources on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 36(2), 109-134. https://doi.org/10.4296/cwrj3602823
2010
Bolch, T., Menounos, B., & Wheate, R. (2010). Landsat-based inventory of glaciers in western Canada, 1985–2005. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114(1), 127–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2009.08.015
Older
Moore, R. D., Fleming, S. W., Menounos, B., Wheate, R., Fountain, A., Stahl, K., ... & Jakob, M. (2009). Glacier change in western North America: influences on hydrology, geomorphic hazards and water quality. Hydrological Processes: An International Journal, 23(1), 42-61. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7162
Demuth, M. N., Pinard, V., Pietroniro, A., Luckman, B. H., Hopkinson, C., Dornes, P., & Comeau, L. (2008). Recent and past-century variations in the glacier resources of the Canadian Rocky Mountains: Nelson River system. Terra Glacialis, 11(248), 27-52.
McKillop, R. J., & Clague, J. J. (2007). A procedure for making objective preliminary assessments of outburst flood hazard from moraine-dammed lakes in southwestern British Columbia. Natural Hazards, 41(1), 131–157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-006-9028-7
Shea, J. M., & Marshall, S. J. (2007). Atmospheric flow indices, regional climate, and glacier mass balance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. International Journal of Climatology: A Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 27(2), 233-247. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1398
Publications from the International Network for Alpine Research Catchment Hydrology (INARCH)
2023
Araya, D., Mendoza, P. A., Muñoz-Castro, E., & McPhee, J. (2023). Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 2023, 1-38. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2023-116
Elshamy, M., Pomeroy, J., & Pietroniro, A. (2023). Yukon River Basin Streamflow Forecasting System-Advancing, Calibrating, Demonstrating Snow Assimilation and Estimating Ungauged Basin Flow: The Vector-Based MESH Model of the Yukon River Basin. Centre for Hydrology, University Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. https://hdl.handle.net/10388/14669
Fang, X., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2023). Simulation of the impact of future changes in climate on the hydrology of Bow River headwater basins in the Canadian Rockies. Journal of Hydrology, 620, 129566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129566
Haugeneder, M., Lehning, M., Reynolds, D., Jonas, T., & Mott, R. (2023). A novel method to quantify near-surface boundary-layer dynamics at ultra-high spatio-temporal resolution. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 186(2), 177-197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-022-00752-3
Marsh, C. B., Harder, P., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2023). Validation of FABDEM, a global bare-earth elevation model, against UAV-lidar derived elevation in a complex forested mountain catchment. Environmental Research Communications, 5(3), 031009. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/acc56d/meta
Marsh, C. B., Vionnet, V., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2023). Windmapper: An efficient wind downscaling method for hydrological models. Water Resources Research, 59(3), e2022WR032683. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR032683
Sicart, J. E., Ramseyer, V., Picard, G., Arnaud, L., Coulaud, C., Freche, G., ... & Essery, R. (2023). Snow accumulation and ablation measurements in a mid-latitude mountain coniferous forest (Col de Porte, France, 1325 m alt.): The Snow Under Forest field campaigns dataset. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 2023, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-174
Vidaller, I., Izagirre, E., del Rio, L. M., Alonso-González, E., Rojas-Heredia, F., Serrano, E., ... & Revuelto, J. (2023). The Aneto Glacier (Central Pyrenees) evolution from 1981 to 2022: ice loss observed from historic aerial image photogrammetry and recent remote sensing techniques. The Cryosphere Discussions, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2022-261
2022
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