RECORD SNOWFALL OF APRIL 14–15, 1921, AT SILVER LAKE, COLORADO

Sensitivity of Lake-Effect Snowfall to Lake Ice Cover and Temperature in the Great Lakes Region

High-resolution Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) simulations are used to explore the sensitivity ofGreat Lakes lake-effect snowfall (LES) to changes in lake ice cover and surface temperature.A control simulation with observed ice cover is compared with three sensitivity tests: complete ice cover, no lake ice, and warmer lake surface temperatures. The spatial pattern of unfrozen lake...

[university of Colorado at Colorado Springs,colorado Springs, Colorado]

Elk Lake pollen record

The pollen record from Elk Lake is interpreted in climatic terms by three different numerical approaches. The paleoclimatic record inferred for Elk Lake can be described as a sequence of climatic zones, separated by short transitional intervals: (1) the cold and dry late glacial zone (11,600-11,000 varve yr), (2) the cool and moist early Holocene zone (10,000-8500 varve yr), (3) the warm and dr...

Climate change projection of snowfall in the Colorado River Basin using dynamical downscaling

[1] Recent observations show a decrease in the fraction of precipitation falling as snowfall in the western United States. In this work we evaluate a historical and future climate simulation over the Colorado River Basin using a 35 km continuous 111 year simulation (1969–2079) of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) regional climate model with boundary forcing from the Hadley Centre for C...

Washington University Record, April 27, 1995