Forests and Snow Storage in the PNW

Presentations

Webinar on forest management

Webinar on PNW results and resulting conceptual framework to predict forest effects on snow storage:

Talk on science-managment partnership

Susan gave an invited talk in 2014 with Rolf Gersonde of Seattle Public Utilities about our experience with a science-management partnership at the PNW Climate Science Conference.

Talk on project development

Talk from 2013 on the early concept of this project at the PNW Climate Science Conference.

Video on field data collection

An overview of our field campaign in the Cedar River Watershed:

Material contained here and within the embedded links is based upon work supported by the Northwest Climate Science Center. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agency.

Peer-reviewed Papers

• Dickerson-Lange, S., E. Howe, K. Patrick, R. Gersonde, and J.D. Lundquist, 2023. Forest gap effects on snow storage in the transitional climate of the Eastern Cascade Range, Washington, USA, Frontiers in Water, 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2023.1115264.


• Currier, W. R., Sun, N., Wigmosta, M., Cristea, N., & Lundquist, J. D. (2022). The impact of forest-controlled snow variability on late-season streamflow varies by climatic region and forest structure. Hydrological Processes, 36( 6), e14614. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14614


• Lumbrazo, C., Bennett, A., Currier, W. R., Nijssen, B., & Lundquist, J. (2022). Evaluating multiple canopy-snow unloading parameterizations in SUMMA with time-lapse photography characterized by citizen scientists. Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR030852. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030852


• Sun, N., Yan, H., Wigmosta, M. S., Lundquist, J., Dickerson‐Lange, S., & Zhou, T. (2022). Forest Canopy Density Effects on Snowpack across the Climate Gradients of the Western United States Mountain Ranges. Water Resources Research, e2020WR029194. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029194


• Dickerson‐Lange, S. E., Vano, J. A., Gersonde, R., & Lundquist, J. D. (2021). Ranking Forest Effects on Snow Storage: A Decision Tool for Forest Management. Water Resources Research, 57(10), e2020WR027926. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027926


• Lundquist, J. D., Dickerson‐Lange, S., Gutmann, E., Jonas, T., Lumbrazo, C., & Reynolds, D. (2021). Snow interception modelling: Isolated observations have led to many land surface models lacking appropriate temperature sensitivities. Hydrological processes, 35(7), e14274. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14274


• Mazzotti, G., Currier, W. R., Deems, J. S., Pflug, J. M., Lundquist, J. D., & Jonas, T. (2019). Revisiting snow cover variability and canopy structure within forest stands: Insights from airborne lidar data. Water Resources Research, 55, 6198– 6216. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024898


• Currier, W. R. and J. D. Lundquist, 2018. Snow depth variability at the forest edge in multiple climates in the western United States. Water Resour. Res., doi:10.1029/ 2018WR022553.


• Sun N, Wigmosta M, Zhou T, Lundquist J, Dickerson‐Lange S, Cristea N. Evaluating the functionality and streamflow impacts of explicitly modeling forest‐snow interactions and canopy gaps in a distributed hydrologic model. Hydrological Processes. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13150


• Dickerson-Lange, S. , R. F. Gersonde, J. A. Hubbart, T. E. Link, A. W. Nolin, G. H. Perry, T. R. Roth, N. E. Wayand, and J. D. Lundquist, 2017. Snow disappearance timing in warm winter climates is dominated by forest effects on snow accumulation, Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.11144.


• Dickerson-Lange, S.E., Lutz, J.A. , Martin, K.A., Raleigh, M.S., Gersonde, R. and J.D. Lundquist (2015), Evaluating observational methods to quantify snow duration under diverse forest canopies. Water Resources Research, 51, DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015744


• Dickerson-Lange, S.E., Lutz, J.A. , Gersonde, R., Martin, K.A., Forsyth, J.E., and J.D. Lundquist (2015), Observations of distributed snow depth and snow duration within diverse forest structures in a maritime mountain watershed, Water Resources Research Technical Note: Data, DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017873


• Dickerson-Lange, S.E., Eitel, K.B., Dorsey, L., Link, T.E., and J.D. Lundquist (2016), Challenges and successes in engaging citizen scientists to observe snow cover: From public engagement to an educational collaboration. Journal of Science Communication 15(01), A01.


• Lundquist, J.D., Dickerson-Lange, S.E., Cristea, N.C., and J.A. Lutz (2013), Lower forest density enhances snow retention in regions with warmer winters: a global framework developed from plot-scale observations and modeling, Water Resources Research. DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20504
  * Winner of 2014 WRR Editor's Choice Award *


• Martin, K.A., Van Stan II, J.T., Dickerson-Lange, S.E., Lutz, J.A., Berman, J.W., Gersonde, R., and J.D. Lundquist (2013), Development and testing of a snow interceptometer to quantify canopy water storage and interception processes in the rain/snow transition zone of the North Cascades, Washington, USA, Water Resources Research, 49, 3243-3256. DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20271