November 6th, 2013

New Scientific Publication on Impact of Rain Snow Threshold Temperature

BioDIVA research scientist Dr. Nidhi Nagabhatla and her colleagues Wen Lijuan, Lü Shihua and Wang Shih-Yu have published a new paper on the impact of rain snow threshold temperature.

This study investigates the impact of rain snow threshold (RST)temperatures on snow depth simulation using the Community Land Model (CLM) and the Weather Research and Forecasting model WRF—coupled with the CLM and hereafter referred to as WRF_CLM), and the difference in impacts. Simulations were performed from 17 December 1994 to 30 May 1995 in the French Alps. Results showed that both the CLM and the WRF_CLM were able to represent a fair simulation of snow depth with actual terrain height and 2.5°C RST temperature.