Our snow science team is investigating the impact of rain-on-snow extreme events in order to asses the impacts of climate change on the timing of snowmelt with respect to key metrics important to hydropower generation and agricultural demands within the state of Montana.

Research Updates

Year One

Literature review in this area has been extensive and will be ongoing due to evolving science.

Year Two

Our snow science researchers published one paper, presented at two conferences, and collected and preprocessed necessary datasets for rain on snow analysis. Machine learning methods for analysis of snowpack were developed and applied.

Field Work

This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement OIA-2119689. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.