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Research article
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28 Jan 2016
Research article |
| 28 Jan 2016
Topographic and vegetation effects on snow accumulation in the southern Sierra Nevada: a statistical summary from lidar data
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
P. B. Kirchner
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, USA
Southwest Alaska Network, National Park Service, Anchorage, AK, USA
R. C. Bales
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Sierra Nevada Research Institute, UC Merced, Merced, CA, USA
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Short summary
By analyzing high-resolution lidar products and using statistical methods, we quantified the snow depth dependency on elevation, slope and aspect of the terrain and also the surrounding vegetation in four catchment size sites in the southern Sierra Nevada during snow peak season. The relative importance of topographic and vegetation attributes varies with elevation and canopy, but all these attributes were found significant in affecting snow distribution in mountain basins.
By analyzing high-resolution lidar products and using statistical methods, we quantified the...
