Tahoe National Forest, United States Forest Service, Nevada City, California, 95959

Management of the Spring Snowmelt Recession in Regulated Systems

Published in JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

In an effort to restore predictable ecologically relevant spring snowmelt recession flow patterns in rivers regulated by dams, this study defined a methodology by which spring flow regimes can be modeled in regulated systems from the quantifiable characteristics of spring snowmelt recessions in unregulated rivers. An analysis of eight unregulated r...