cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Römer
    given-names: Johann
    affiliation: "MOR Research Collective"
title: "snowpack-elevation-warming-utac"
version: "1.0.1"
date-released: "2026-08-31"
url: "https://github.com/GenesisAeon/snowpack-elevation-warming-utac"
repository-code: "https://github.com/GenesisAeon/snowpack-elevation-warming-utac"
license: MIT
abstract: "The seasonal snow buffer is eroding: Pepin et al. 2015's elevation-dependent-warming mechanism review, Matiu et al. 2021's European Alps snow depth trends (1971-2019), Notarnicola 2022's global mountain snow cover trends (1982-2020, incl. the Karakoram anomaly and winter/spring divergence), and Mote et al. 2018's western US snowpack decline (since 1915). Quantifies distributed-buffer-resilience-utac's (P103) unquantified 'snow (seasonal)' buffer category and extends glacier-buffer-utac's (P99) peak-water framing. Deliberately includes findings that complicate its own headline narrative. Deliberately no UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge. GenesisAeon P110."
keywords:
  - GenesisAeon
  - P110
  - climate
  - snowpack
  - cryosphere
  - elevation-dependent-warming
  - open-science
references:
  - type: article
    title: "Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world"
    authors:
      - name: "Pepin, N."
      - name: "Bradley, R.S."
      - name: "Diaz, H.F."
      - name: "Baraer, M."
      - name: "Caceres, E.B."
      - name: "Forsythe, N."
    year: 2015
    journal: "Nature Climate Change"
    volume: 5
    start: 424
    doi: "10.1038/nclimate2563"
  - type: article
    title: "Observed snow depth trends in the European Alps: 1971 to 2019"
    authors:
      - name: "Matiu, M."
      - name: "Crespi, A."
      - name: "Bertoldi, G."
      - name: "Carmagnola, C.M."
      - name: "Marty, C."
      - name: "Morin, S."
    year: 2021
    journal: "The Cryosphere"
    volume: 15
    start: 1343
    doi: "10.5194/tc-15-1343-2021"
  - type: article
    title: "Overall negative trends for snow cover extent and duration in global mountain regions over 1982-2020"
    authors:
      - name: "Notarnicola, C."
    year: 2022
    journal: "Scientific Reports"
    volume: 12
    start: 13731
    doi: "10.1038/s41598-022-16743-w"
  - type: article
    title: "Dramatic declines in snowpack in the western US"
    authors:
      - name: "Mote, P.W."
      - name: "Li, S."
      - name: "Lettenmaier, D.P."
      - name: "Xiao, M."
      - name: "Engel, R."
    year: 2018
    journal: "npj Climate and Atmospheric Science"
    volume: 1
    start: 2
    doi: "10.1038/s41612-018-0012-1"