Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/A/S/2001/01089
Snow-vegetation interactions - influence on hydrological and atmospheric exchange for high latitude surfaces.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor RLH Essery, Aberystwyth University, Inst of Geography and Earth Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr R Harding, NERC CEH (Up to 30.11.2019), Reynard
- Grant held at:
- Aberystwyth University, Inst of Geography and Earth Sciences
- Science Area:
- Freshwater
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Freshwater
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Hydrological Processes
- Glacial & Cryospheric Systems
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- Snowmelt is the primary flux of freshwater to high latitude aquatic ecosystems, is a prominent cause of floods and a strong regulator of climate. This study seeks to improve our understanding of snowmelt processes where they are least known: over the 30% of land area where canopies of forest and shrub confound the energetics of snowmelt and introduce feedbacks that may accelerate or damper melt rates. The study will improve our knowledge of melt energetics in globally-important boreal forest and shrub-tundra ecosystems by making measurements to determine key unknowns in the energy balance, improving process-based hydrology modelling of snowmelt energetics, evaluating the mesoscale atmospheric interactions due to complex vegetated terrain and using the results to improve representations of snowmelt in large scale land surface schemes for hydrometeorological models.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/A/S/2001/01089
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £237,967
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs | Total - Equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £27,757 | £110,354 | £30,934 | £50,763 | £18,160 |
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