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Numerous posters and talks at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December 13-17, 2010, will feature recent work snow system science projects being supported by the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies. If you're at this Fall Meeting, please check them out! Monday, December 13, 8:00-10:00 AM at 3010 (Moscone West)
Session: C11C. Polar Snow and Firn and Innovative Data Acquisition Methods for Snow Science I
Title: Estimating SWE distribution with a combination of groundbased
radar measurements, modeling and remote sensing (C11C-01).
Authors: H. Marshall; D.G. Marks; A.H. Winstral; R. Shrestha; A.T. Hudak
Monday, December 13, 8:45-9:00 AM at Loess 2.0 (Moscone West)
Session: PP11F. Milestones and Recent
Advances in the Study of Loess, Dust, and Other Eolian Sediment Archives I
Title: Response of Colorado River runoff to dust radiative
forcing in snow (PP11F-04).
Authors: T.H. Painter; J.S. Deems; J. Belnap; A.F.
Hamlet; C. Landry; B. Udall
Wednesday, December 15, 1:40-6:00 PM at Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Session: C33C. Monitoring, Measuring, and Modeling
Snow Processes Posters
Title: Comparison of image derived, measured and modeled
SWE in relation to snow-melt runoff for the Senator Beck basin, CO
during the spring of 2010 (C33C-0538).
Authors: S. Frankenstein; E.J. Deeb; G.G. Koenig
Session: C33D. Polar Snow and Firn and Innovative
Data Acquisition Methods for Snow Science II Posters
Title: A comparison of Ground-Based LiDAR, contact
spectroscopy, FMCW radar, and manual snow pit profiles of a
mountain snowpack (C33D-0562)
Authors: J.S. Deems; D.C. Finnegan; E.J. Deeb; H. Marshall; A.C. Bryant; S. Skiles; C. Landry; T.H. Painter
Title: Field Collection Efforts of Snowpack Properties in
Support of Remote Sensing Applications (C33D-0564.).
Authors: E.J. Deeb; H. Marshall; J.S. Deems; D.C. Finnegan; T.H. Painter; C. Landry; A.C. Bryant; S.
Skiles
Session: C33F. Seasonal Snow Covers in a
Changing Climate: Implications for Hydrological, Biogeochemical, and Ecological Processes II
Posters.
Title: Interannual Variability in Radiative Forcing and Snowmelt
Rates by Desert Dust in Snowcover in the Colorado River Basin (C33F-0598).
Authors: S. Skiles; T.H. Painter; A.P. Barrett; C. Landry; J.S. Deems; A.H. Winstral
Thursday, December 16, 1:40-6:00 PM at Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Session: GC43A. Biogeochemical Responses to a
Changing Arctic I Posters
Title: Changing the seasonality of an Arctic tundra
ecosystem: earlier snowmelt and warmer temperatures (GC43A-0955).
Authors: H. Steltzer; M.N. Weintraub; A. Darrouzet-Nardi; C. Melle; A. Segal; P. Sullivan; C. Landry; M.D. Wallenstein
Friday, December 17, 5:00-5:15 PM at 3011 (Moscone West)
Session: C54B. Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere III
Title: Scale and sensor dependency of measurements of dust
radiative forcing in snow (C54B-05).
Authors: A.C. Bryant; T.H. Painter