Vanishing Snow: The Hunt for the Missing Water

How much water will make it from the winter snowpack to the Colorado River? Each winter, an unknown amount of water from mountain snowpack disappears into the atmosphere through the poorly understood process of sublimation. To better understand and quantify how sublimation happens, the Sublimation of Snow (SOS) Project deployed over 100 instruments at a research site at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory near Crested Butte, Colorado. This intensive study was conducted by Dr. Jessica Lundquist and collaborators at the University of Washington, Aspen Global Change Institute, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and funded by the National Science Foundation.
To learn more about the SOS Project, visit agci.org/subli....
To read the first published results from the SOS Project, visit journals.amets...