Rocky Mountain Regional Snowpack Chemistry Monitoring Study
Snowpacks collect atmospheric deposition throughout the snowfall season and offer a unique opportunity to obtain a composite sample of the chemistry of most of the annual precipitation at high elevations [> 1,800 meters]. The purpose of the snowpack network is to determine annual concentrations and depositional amounts of selected nutrients and other constituents in snow resulting from atmospheric deposition, determine long-term trends in these concentrations, and to support investigations of the effects of atmospheric deposition on local and regional ecological systems. Since 1993, the project has become the most expansive and comprehensive snowpack-chemical monitoring network of its kind.
Review data collected since 1993:
Monitoring Sites:
- Interactive Snowpack Chemistry Map
- Monitoring sites and links to collected data by region and state
- List of monitoring sites
Snowpack Chemistry Data Collected:
Publications associated with this project.
Major-ion chemistry of the Rocky Mountain snowpack, USA
Comparison of precipitation chemistry in the Central Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA
Snowpack chemistry at selected sites in Colorado and New Mexico during winter 1999-2000
Timescales for migration of atmospherically derived sulphate through an alpine/subalpine watershed, Loch Vale, Colorado
Effects of snowmobile use on snowpack chemistry in Yellowstone National Park, 1998
Snowpack chemistry at selected sites in northwestern Colorado during spring 1995
Maximum-accumulation snowpack chemistry at selected sites in northwestern Colorado during spring 1994
Processes controlling the chemistry of two snowmelt‐dominated streams in the Rocky Mountains
Particulate carbonate matter in snow from selected sites in the south-central Rocky Mountains
Initial findings of synoptic snowpack sampling in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
Below are partners associated with this project.
Snowpacks collect atmospheric deposition throughout the snowfall season and offer a unique opportunity to obtain a composite sample of the chemistry of most of the annual precipitation at high elevations [> 1,800 meters]. The purpose of the snowpack network is to determine annual concentrations and depositional amounts of selected nutrients and other constituents in snow resulting from atmospheric deposition, determine long-term trends in these concentrations, and to support investigations of the effects of atmospheric deposition on local and regional ecological systems. Since 1993, the project has become the most expansive and comprehensive snowpack-chemical monitoring network of its kind.
Review data collected since 1993:
Monitoring Sites:
- Interactive Snowpack Chemistry Map
- Monitoring sites and links to collected data by region and state
- List of monitoring sites
Snowpack Chemistry Data Collected:
Publications associated with this project.
Major-ion chemistry of the Rocky Mountain snowpack, USA
Comparison of precipitation chemistry in the Central Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA
Snowpack chemistry at selected sites in Colorado and New Mexico during winter 1999-2000
Timescales for migration of atmospherically derived sulphate through an alpine/subalpine watershed, Loch Vale, Colorado
Effects of snowmobile use on snowpack chemistry in Yellowstone National Park, 1998
Snowpack chemistry at selected sites in northwestern Colorado during spring 1995
Maximum-accumulation snowpack chemistry at selected sites in northwestern Colorado during spring 1994
Processes controlling the chemistry of two snowmelt‐dominated streams in the Rocky Mountains
Particulate carbonate matter in snow from selected sites in the south-central Rocky Mountains
Initial findings of synoptic snowpack sampling in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
Below are partners associated with this project.