Hydrometeorological data from mountain and alpine research catchments

INARCH has a special issue of the journal, Earth System Sciences Data, titled: "Hydrometeorological data from mountain and alpine research catchments" (https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/special_issue871.html). This represents an important collection of datasets from alpine research catchments around the world. The issue remains open for submissions.

Information:

Guest Editors: J. Pomeroy, D. Marks, I. López-Moreno

This ESSD special issue responds to an international need to improve the understanding and modelling of mountain snow and ice hydrological processes. Data sets contributed to the special issue should support and promote research on the effects of mountain snowpacks and glaciers on water supply as well as study of variations in energy and water exchange amongst different high-altitude regions. This initiative arises from a new GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel cross-cut project – INARCH, the International Network for Alpine Research Catchment Hydrology. The guest editors invite contributions of openly available detailed meteorological and hydrological observational archives from long-term research catchments at high temporal resolution (at least 5 years of continuous data with hourly sampling intervals for meteorological data, daily precipitation and streamflow, and regular snow and/or glacier mass balance surveys) in well-instrumented mountain regions around the world. Contributors and researchers will use this mountain hydrology data publication special issue for the benefit of global alpine hydrological research.

Papers and datasets:

• Salerno, F., Guyennon, N., Colombo, N., Melis, M. T., Dessì, F. G., Verza, G., Bista, K., Sheharyar, A., and Tartari, G.: What is climate change doing in Himalaya? Thirty years of the Pyramid Meteorological Network (Nepal), Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-591, in review, 2025.
• Warscher, M., Marke, T., Rottler, E., and Strasser, U.: Operational and experimental snow observation systems in the upper Rofental: data from 2017 to 2023, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 3579–3599, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-3579-2024, 2024.
• Sicart, J. E., Ramseyer, V., Picard, G., Arnaud, L., Coulaud, C., Freche, G., Soubeyrand, D., Lejeune, Y., Dumont, M., Gouttevin, I., Le Gac, E., Berger, F., Monnet, J.-M., Borgniet, L., Mermin, É., Rutter, N., Webster, C., and Essery, R.: Snow accumulation and ablation measurements in a midlatitude mountain coniferous forest (Col de Porte, France, 1325 m altitude): the Snow Under Forest (SnoUF) field campaign data set, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 5121–5133, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5121-2023, 2023.
• Pradhananga, D., Pomeroy, J. W., Aubry-Wake, C., Munro, D. S., Shea, J., Demuth, M. N., Kirat, N. H., Menounos, B., and Mukherjee, K.: Hydrometeorological, glaciological and geospatial research data from the Peyto Glacier Research Basin in the Canadian Rockies, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 2875–2894, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2875-2021, 2021.
• Thériault, J. M., Déry, S. J., Pomeroy, J. W., Smith, H. M., Almonte, J., Bertoncini, A., Crawford, R. W., Desroches-Lapointe, A., Lachapelle, M., Mariani, Z., Mitchell, S., Morris, J. E., Hébert-Pinard, C., Rodriguez, P., and Thompson, H. D.: Meteorological observations collected during the Storms and Precipitation Across the continental Divide Experiment (SPADE), April–June 2019, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1233–1249, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1233-2021, 2021.
• Bliss, A., Hock, R., Wolken, G., Whorton, E., Aubry-Wake, C., Braun, J., Gusmeroli, A., Harrison, W., Hoffman, A., Liljedahl, A., and Zhang, J.: Glaciers and climate of the Upper Susitna basin, Alaska, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 403–427, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-403-2020, 2020.
• Rets, E. P., Popovnin, V. V., Toropov, P. A., Smirnov, A. M., Tokarev, I. V., Chizhova, J. N., Budantseva, N. A., Vasil'chuk, Y. K., Kireeva, M. B., Ekaykin, A. A., Veres, A. N., Aleynikov, A. A., Frolova, N. L., Tsyplenkov, A. S., Poliukhov, A. A., Chalov, S. R., Aleshina, M. A., and Kornilova, E. D.: Djankuat glacier station in the North Caucasus, Russia: a database of glaciological, hydrological, and meteorological observations and stable isotope sampling results during 2007–2017, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1463–1481, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1463-2019, 2019.
• Che, T., Li, X., Liu, S., Li, H., Xu, Z., Tan, J., Zhang, Y., Ren, Z., Xiao, L., Deng, J., Jin, R., Ma, M., Wang, J., and Yang, X.: Integrated hydrometeorological, snow and frozen-ground observations in the alpine region of the Heihe River Basin, China, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1483–1499, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1483-2019, 2019.
• Fang, X., Pomeroy, J. W., DeBeer, C. M., Harder, P., and Siemens, E.: Hydrometeorological data from Marmot Creek Research Basin, Canadian Rockies, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 455–471, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-455-2019, 2019.
• Polo, M. J., Herrero, J., Pimentel, R., and Pérez-Palazón, M. J.: The Guadalfeo Monitoring Network (Sierra Nevada, Spain): 14 years of measurements to understand the complexity of snow dynamics in semiarid regions, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 393–407, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-393-2019, 2019.
• Roche, J. W., Rice, R., Meng, X., Cayan, D. R., Dettinger, M. D., Alden, D., Patel, S. C., Mason, M. A., Conklin, M. H., and Bales, R. C.: Climate, snow, and soil moisture data set for the Tuolumne and Merced river watersheds, California, USA, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 101–110, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-101-2019, 2019.
• Rasouli, K., Pomeroy, J. W., Janowicz, J. R., Williams, T. J., and Carey, S. K.: A long-term hydrometeorological dataset (1993–2014) of a northern mountain basin: Wolf Creek Research Basin, Yukon Territory, Canada, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 89–100, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-89-2019, 2019.
• Guyomarc'h, G., Bellot, H., Vionnet, V., Naaim-Bouvet, F., Déliot, Y., Fontaine, F., Puglièse, P., Nishimura, K., Durand, Y., and Naaim, M.: A meteorological and blowing snow data set (2000–2016) from a high-elevation alpine site (Col du Lac Blanc, France, 2720 m a.s.l.), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 57–69, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-57-2019, 2019.
• Lejeune, Y., Dumont, M., Panel, J.-M., Lafaysse, M., Lapalus, P., Le Gac, E., Lesaffre, B., and Morin, S.: 57 years (1960–2017) of snow and meteorological observations from a mid-altitude mountain site (Col de Porte, France, 1325 m of altitude), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 71–88, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-71-2019, 2019.
• Bales, R. C., Stacy, E. M., Meng, X., Conklin, M. H., Kirchner, P. B., and Zheng, Z.: Spatially distributed water-balance and meteorological data from the Wolverton catchment, Sequoia National Park, California, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 2115–2122, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2115-2018, 2018.
• Bales, R., Stacy, E., Safeeq, M., Meng, X., Meadows, M., Oroza, C., Conklin, M., Glaser, S., and Wagenbrenner, J.: Spatially distributed water-balance and meteorological data from the rain–snow transition, southern Sierra Nevada, California, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1795–1805, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1795-2018, 2018.
• Hernández-Henríquez, M. A., Sharma, A. R., Taylor, M., Thompson, H. D., and Déry, S. J.: The Cariboo Alpine Mesonet: sub-hourly hydrometeorological observations of British Columbia's Cariboo Mountains and surrounding area since 2006, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1655–1672, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1655-2018, 2018.
• Godsey, S. E., Marks, D., Kormos, P. R., Seyfried, M. S., Enslin, C. L., Winstral, A. H., McNamara, J. P., and Link, T. E.: Eleven years of mountain weather, snow, soil moisture and streamflow data from the rain–snow transition zone – the Johnston Draw catchment, Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed and Critical Zone Observatory, USA, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1207–1216, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1207-2018, 2018.
• Kormos, P. R., Marks, D. G., Seyfried, M. S., Havens, S. C., Hedrick, A., Lohse, K. A., Sandusky, M., Kahl, A., and Garen, D.: 31 years of hourly spatially distributed air temperature, humidity, and precipitation amount and phase from Reynolds Critical Zone Observatory, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1197–1205, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1197-2018, 2018.
• Makarieva, O., Nesterova, N., Lebedeva, L., and Sushansky, S.: Water balance and hydrology research in a mountainous permafrost watershed in upland streams of the Kolyma River, Russia: a database from the Kolyma Water-Balance Station, 1948–1997, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 689–710, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-689-2018, 2018.
• Bair, E. H., Davis, R. E., and Dozier, J.: Hourly mass and snow energy balance measurements from Mammoth Mountain, CA USA, 2011–2017, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 549–563, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-549-2018, 2018.
• Alonso-González, E., López-Moreno, J. I., Gascoin, S., García-Valdecasas Ojeda, M., Sanmiguel-Vallelado, A., Navarro-Serrano, F., Revuelto, J., Ceballos, A., Esteban-Parra, M. J., and Essery, R.: Daily gridded datasets of snow depth and snow water equivalent for the Iberian Peninsula from 1980 to 2014, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 303–315, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-303-2018, 2018.
• Strasser, U., Marke, T., Braun, L., Escher-Vetter, H., Juen, I., Kuhn, M., Maussion, F., Mayer, C., Nicholson, L., Niedertscheider, K., Sailer, R., Stötter, J., Weber, M., and Kaser, G.: The Rofental: a high Alpine research basin (1890–3770 m a.s.l.) in the Ötztal Alps (Austria) with over 150 years of hydrometeorological and glaciological observations, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 151–171, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-151-2018, 2018.
• Revuelto, J., Azorin-Molina, C., Alonso-González, E., Sanmiguel-Vallelado, A., Navarro-Serrano, F., Rico, I., and López-Moreno, J. I.: Meteorological and snow distribution data in the Izas Experimental Catchment (Spanish Pyrenees) from 2011 to 2017, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 993–1005, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-993-2017, 2017.
• Fayad, A., Gascoin, S., Faour, G., Fanise, P., Drapeau, L., Somma, J., Fadel, A., Al Bitar, A., and Escadafal, R.: Snow observations in Mount Lebanon (2011–2016), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 573–587, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-573-2017, 2017.
• Kormos, P. R., Marks, D. G., Pierson, F. B., Williams, C. J., Hardegree, S. P., Boehm, A. R., Havens, S. C., Hedrick, A., Cram, Z. K., and Svejcar, T. J.: Meteorological, snow, streamflow, topographic, and vegetation height data from four western juniper-dominated experimental catchments in southwestern Idaho, USA, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 91–98, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-91-2017, 2017.