Using Process Based Snow Modeling and Lidar to Predict the Effects of Forest Thinning on the Northern Sierra Nevada Snowpack

Agriculture & Biology

• forest thinning 100%
• lidar 95%
• Sierra Nevada (California) 87%
• snowpack 81%
• snow 68%
• physics 31%
• thinning (plants) 18%
• basins 16%
• water stress 14%
• water interception 13%
• snowmelt 12%
• sublimation 12%
• artificial intelligence 10%
• forest management 9%
• water management 9%
• forest ecosystems 9%
• energy balance 9%
• lakes 7%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• snowpack 68%
• lidar 58%
• thinning 58%
• snow 48%
• modeling 25%
• physics 25%
• snow accumulation 24%
• water stress 22%
• melt 22%
• watershed 14%
• effect 14%
• sublimation 11%
• interception 11%
• snowmelt 10%
• lake basin 10%
• leaf area index 10%
• headwater 10%
• machine learning 10%
• forest management 9%
• forest ecosystem 9%
• energy balance 9%
• management practice 9%
• mass balance 8%
• water management 8%
• canopy 8%
• decision 6%
• exposure 5%
• loss 5%
• basin 5%