Developing a Snow Monitoring Network in a Forested Mountain Watershed

mountainforeststreamOur research article was featured in US EPA Climate Change and Water News (August 31, 2016).

Current snow monitoring networks may not be representative of basin-scale distributions of snow water equivalent (SWE), especially in areas where forests and snowpacks are changing. To address this issue, researchers conducted a study to determine the key physiographic drivers of SWE; classify the landscape based on those physiographic drivers; and use that classification to identify a parsimonious set of monitoring sites in a forested watershed in the western Oregon Cascades mountain range.

Gleason, K. E., Nolin, A. W., and Roth, T. R.: Developing a representative snow monitoring network in a forested mountain watershed, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., doi:10.5194/hess-2016-317, in review, 2016.