Blom , Tevis 1 1 University Colorado Boulder April 1st Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) is a useful indicator of potential water resources along Colorado’s Front Range. This is especially so at altitude where snowpack serves as a seasonal storage reservoir. Climate change in the 20th century has the potential to...
Aigler , Brent V. 1 ; Ge , Shemin 2 ; McCaffree , Charles A. 3 1 Environmental Studies & INSTAAR, CU-Boulder 2 Geological Sciences & INSTAAR, CU-Boulder 3 University of Colorado at Boulder Mountainous watersheds present unique challenges to groundwater modeling due to spatial variations in climate and topography...
Abel , Kali M 1 ; Anderson , Robert S 2 ; Stock , Greg 3 1 University of Colorado and INSTAAR 2 University of Colorado and INSTAAR 3 National Park Service The two largest glaciers in Yosemite National Park, Lyell and Maclure, are rapidly receding with their ice thinning...
Weingarten , Matthew 1 ; Hsieh , Paul 2 1 University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA 2 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA Solute transport through fractured porous rocks can be described by advective-dispersive transport through the fractures and diffusive transport through the unfractured matrix. The effect...
Underhill , Vivian R 1 1 University of Colorado With rising global temperatures, a major concern is that fresh water from melting glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet will slow down global oceanic circulation patterns, in particular the North Atlantic Current (NAC). The NAC, an extension of the Gulf Stream,...
Rengers , Francis Kevin 1 ; Moody , John 2 ; Ebel , Brian 3 1 University of Colorado 2 USGS 3 USGS Recently new work has begun to try to model the sediment deposition and erosion patterns that occurred in the Spring Creek Watershed following the Buffalo Creek Fire...
Perrot , Danielle O. 1 ; Molotch , Noah P. 2 ; Musselman , Keith N. 3 ; Pugh , Evan T. 4 1 University of Colorado at Boulder 2 University of Colorado at Boulder 3 University of California, Los Angeles 4 University of Colorado at Boulder The recent mountain...
Meromy , Leah H 1 ; Molotch , Noah P 2 ; Link , Timothy E 3 ; Fassnacht , Steven R 4 ; Herchmer , Eric 5 ; Roberts , Scott 6 ; Rice , Robert 7 1 University of Colorado, Boulder, INSTAAR 2 University of Colorado, Boulder, INSTAAR,...