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Mckenzie Skiles
Associate Professor, University of Utah
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Response of Land Surface Albedo to Fire Disturbance in the Sierra Nevada Seasonal Snow Zone Over the MODIS Record
EARTH'S FUTURE
26 june 2024
Jillian Gayler, McKenzie Skiles
Wildfires in the snow zone can brighten winter and spring landscapes by removing forest canopy, revealing underlying snow cover. Land surface albed...
Snow Grain Size Retrieval Algorithm Effectiveness using UAV-borne High-Resolution Hyperspectral Observations
REMOTE SENSING OF THE CRYOSPHERE: SEASONAL SNOW II POSTER
cryosphere | 15 december 2023
Adam Hunsaker, Jennifer M. Jacobs, Jeremy M. Johns...
Snow grain size significantly influences the amount of solar energy reflected by a snowpack. Grain size can vary considerably in space and its metamor...
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Understanding Impacts of Dust-on-Snow on Regional Hydrology Dynamics in the Upper Colorado River Basin for the Past 20 Years
APPLICATIONS IN SNOW HYDROLOGY: LINKING SNOWPACK AND STREAMFLOW ACROSS SCALES I POSTER
hydrology | 15 december 2023
Jiaxuan Cai, Patrick Naple, McKenzie Skiles, Saroj...
Mountain snowpacks are a vital resource in arid and semi-arid regions, and the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB), where seasonal mountain snowmelt con...
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A two decade record of dust on snow in the Great Salt Lake Basin: Interannual variability in radiative forcing and snowmelt timing
AIR POLLUTION, MICROALGAE, AND THEIR IMPACTS ON THE CRYOSPHERE II POSTER
cryosphere | 15 december 2023
Otto I. Lang, McKenzie Skiles, Karl Rittger, Derek...
The primary watersheds of the Great Salt Lake Basin (GSLB) internally drain over 35,000 km2 of mountainous terrain to the terminal Great Salt Lake. Th...
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Long-term Trends in Spring Season Dust Emissions Across the Southwestern United States
DUST IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: FROM SMALL‐SCALE INSIGHTS TO LARGE‐SCALE UNDERSTANDING I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 14 december 2023
Saroj Dhital, Nicholas Webb, Nathaniel W. Chaney, ...
Spring (March-May) dust activity across the southwestern US is of great concern as it impacts human health, ecosystems, and water resources in the Col...
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Aerosol Measurements for Integrated Mountainous Hydroclimate Processes in the Upper Colorado River Basin
ATMOSPHERE-THROUGH-BEDROCK OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND SCIENCE IN THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN II ORAL
hydrology | 14 december 2023
Allison C. Aiken, Paul J. DeMott, Jiwen Fan, McKen...
Aerosols, tiny particles transported in the atmosphere, cannot be overlooked when trying to understand the water cycle, especially within mountainous ...
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A 23-year record of MODIS dust on snow radiative forcing in the Upper Colorado River Basin
DUST IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: FROM SMALL‐SCALE INSIGHTS TO LARGE‐SCALE UNDERSTANDING I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 14 december 2023
Patrick Naple, McKenzie Skiles, Karl Rittger
Seasonal mountain snow is a crucial component of the Western United States water supply. For example, seasonal snowmelt from mountainous headwaters is...
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A Cold Laboratory Hyperspectral Imaging System Mapping Firn Core Grain Size and Ice Layer Stratigraphy
SNOW AND FIRN PROCESSES ON GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS I POSTER
cryosphere | 14 december 2023
Ian McDowell, Kaitlin Keegan, McKenzie Skiles, Chr...
Meltwater infiltration in porous firn interrupts the transition from surface melt to ice sheet runoff. While macroscale firn properties, such as poros...
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