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Changing Storms and Snowpack Fate in the Western United States

Creator:

Hu, Jyun-Yi Michelle

Abstract:

Cold-season storms are responsible for generating most of the snow that accumulates in mountainous watersheds across the western United States, but with overwhelming evidence of warming temperature trends, this seasonal snowpack is at risk for melt, The vast majority of snow trend studies utilize undifferentiated air temperature records – these...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Simulated response of ecosystem processes to climate change in northern California and western Nevada

Creator:

McGlinchy, Maureen C.

Abstract:

In order to investigate potential climate impacts on landscape-scale ecosystem processes, I implemented a dynamic general vegetation model (DGVM) over a large domain in northern California and western Nevada on a rectangular grid of ca. 800-meter spatial resolution. I used 100 years of observed, monthly climate and nine future climate...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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