The cold rain‐on‐snow event of June 2013 in the Canadian Rockies—Characteristics and diagnosis

JW Pomeroy, X Fang, DG Marks - Hydrological Processes, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The June 2013 flood in the Canadian Rockies featured rain‐on‐snow (ROS) runoff
generation at alpine elevations that contributed to the high streamflows observed during the …

Spatial and temporal shifts in historic and future temperature and precipitation patterns related to snow accumulation and melt regimes in Alberta, Canada

BW Newton, B Farjad, JF Orwin - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Shifts in winter temperature and precipitation patterns can profoundly affect snow
accumulation and melt regimes. These shifts have varying impacts on local to large-scale …

Hydrological functioning of a beaver dam sequence and regional dam persistence during an extreme rainstorm

CJ Westbrook, A Ronnquist… - Hydrological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is becoming increasingly popular to reintroduce beaver to streams with the hopes of
restoring riparian ecosystem function or reducing some of the hydrological impacts of …

Evaluation and uncertainty assessment of weather data and model calibration on daily streamflow simulation in a large-scale regulated and snow-dominated river …

Y Chen, M Faramarzi, TY Gan, Y She - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
The choice of proper input data and suitable calibration schemes is challenging in the
hydrological modeling of higher-latitude watersheds with their unique hydro-climatic …

Assessing the factors governing the ability to predict late-spring flooding in cold-region mountain basins

V Vionnet, V Fortin, E Gaborit, G Roy… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Abstract From 19 to 22 June 2013, intense rainfall and concurrent snowmelt led to
devastating floods in the Canadian Rockies, foothills and downstream areas of southern …

Impact of antecedent conditions on simulations of a flood in a mountain headwater basin

X Fang, JW Pomeroy - Hydrological Processes, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A devastating flood struck Southern Alberta in late June 2013, with much of its streamflow
generation in the Front Ranges of the Rocky Mountains, west of Calgary. To better …

Spatial extent of precipitation events: when big is getting bigger

D Matte, JH Christensen, T Ozturk - Climate Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
Using a sub-selection of regional climate models at 0.11°(≈≈ 12 km) grid resolution from
the EURO-CORDEX ensemble, we investigate how the spatial extent of areas associated …

Future changes in the free tropospheric freezing level and rain–snow limit: The case of central Chile

P Mardones, RD Garreaud - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
The freezing level in the free troposphere often intercepts the terrain of the world's major
mountain ranges, creating a rain–snow limit. In this work, we use the free tropospheric …

Changes to flood peaks of a mountain river: implications for analysis of the 2013 flood in the Upper Bow River, Canada

PH Whitfield, JW Pomeroy - Hydrological Processes, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The mountain headwater Bow River at Banff, Alberta, Canada, was subject to a
large flood in June 2013, over which considerable debate has ensued regarding its …

Storms and precipitation across the continental divide experiment (SPADE)

JM Thériault, NR Leroux, RE Stewart… - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Canadian Rockies are a triple-continental divide, whose high mountains are
drained by major snow-fed and rain-fed rivers flowing to the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic …