Sublimation significantly impacts the mass balance of annual mountain snowpacks.
Sublimation plays a major role in the mass balance of annual mountain snowpacks, accounting for substantial moisture losses ranging up to a third of cumulative snowfall.
Papers [0] and [1] directly investigate the mass balance of mountain/alpine snowpacks and provide quantitative evidence that sublimation (particularly blowing-snow sublimation) is a substantial component of snow mass loss. The other retrieved papers focus on different aspects of hydrology, streamflow, rain-on-snow events, or general glacier melt without contradicting the substantial impact of sublimation.
M. K. MacDonald, J. W. Pomeroy, A. Pietroniro. On the importance of sublimation to an alpine snow mass balance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. 2010. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-14-1401-2010
Demonstrates that alpine snow sublimation losses account for 20-32% of cumulative snowfall, showing that sublimation significantly impacts mountain snow mass balance.
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Liston GE, Itkin P, Stroeve J, Tschudi M, Stewart JS, Pedersen SH, Reinking AK, Elder K. A Lagrangian Snow-Evolution System for Sea-Ice Applications (SnowModel-LG): Part I-Model Description.. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc015913
Finds that blowing-snow sublimation makes a significant contribution to the overall snowpack mass budget in high-latitude and mountainous environments.
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