Geology

Meteorology

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Snow

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Atmospheric sciences

Computer science

Climatology

Cloud computing

Geography

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Vegetation (pathology)

Environmental science

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Shrub

Snowpack

Physical geography

Snowmelt

Climate change

Cloud cover

Geometry

Precipitation

Geotechnical engineering

Ecology

Elevation (ballistics)

Pathology

Water Resources Research

In mountains with seasonal snow cover, the effects of climate change on snowpack will be constrained by landscape‐vegetation interactions with the atmosphere. Airborne lidar surveys used to estimate snow depth, topography, and vegetation were coupled with reanalysis climate products to quantify these interactions and to highlight potential snowpack sensitivities to climate and vegetation change across the western U.S. at Rocky Mountain (RM), Northern Basin and Range (NBR), and Sierra Nevada (SNV) sites. In forest and shrub areas, elevation captured the greatest amount of variability in snow depth (16–79%) but aspect explained more variability (11–40%) in alpine areas. Aspect was most important at RM sites where incoming shortwave to incoming net radiation (SW:NetR↓) was highest (∼0.5), capturing 17–37% of snow depth variability in forests and 32–37% in shrub areas. Forest vegetation height exhibited negative relationships with snow depth and explained 3–6% of its variability at sites with greater longwave inp...

Regional sensitivities of seasonal snowpack to elevation, aspect, and vegetation cover in western <scp>N</scp> orth <scp>A</scp> merica

Regional sensitivities of seasonal snowpack to elevation, aspect, and vegetation cover in western N orth A merica