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Understanding the impact of climate change on snowpack extent and measurement in the Columbia River Basin and nested sub basins

Creator:

Brown, Aimee Lyn

Abstract:

Shifting climate patterns in the Columbia River basin are affecting snow pack, and, as a result, stream flow throughout the region. In the Oregon Cascades, ever growing populations, and their associated activities, place increasing stress on an already over allocated hydrologic system. Political pressures, including the possibility of renegotiation or...

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Masters Thesis

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Seeing the snow through the trees : towards a validated canopy adjustment for satellite fractional snow-covered area

Creator:

Coons, Lexi

Abstract:

Forest canopy cover presents a major challenge for remote sensing of fractional snow-covered area (ƒSCA). Snow cover is systematically underestimated where satellites sensors cannot penetrate the forest canopy. Current canopy adjustments scale observable ƒSCA with the vegetation fraction, assuming that snow cover distributions are similar between sub-canopy and open locations....

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Masters Thesis

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; Pederson et al., 2013] and predictions suggest these trends will continue [Nolin and Daly, 2006