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Ice Lenses: Formation and Hydrological Impacts

Covers ice lens formation, water flow redirection, snowmelt fate, and runoff modulation.

Snow Melt Dynamics: Phases, Energy Balance, and Water Movement

Explores snowmelt phases, energy balance, water dynamics, and transport complexities in snow.

Teton Dam Disaster: earthfill dam hydraulic rupture

Discusses the Teton Dam Disaster of 1976 in Idaho, covering its construction, failure sequence, warning signs, breach, and causes.

Snowpack Water Balance: Modeling and Analysis

Explores snowpack water balance, snowmelt, ablation, and energy-water balance link using degree day models.

Energy balance: Snowpack and radiation

Explores the energy balance in snowpacks, focusing on radiation properties, energy transfer mechanisms, and factors affecting terrestrial energy exchange.

Energy balance: Snow Albedo and Radiation Fluxes

Explores snow albedo, radiation fluxes, turbulent heat fluxes, and numerical modeling of snow energy balance.

Spatial Variability of Snow Properties

Explores the spatial variability of snow properties and the impact of heterogeneous snow cover on melt timing and volume.