Wildfires in the snow zone can brighten winter and spring landscapes by removing forest canopy, revealing underlying snow cover. Land surface albedo (LSA) alterations associated with transitioning ...from a canopied, snow‐hiding vegetation regime to a snow‐revealing landscape have impacts on the surface energy balance, with implications for climate and water supply. Forest fires are increasing in frequency, size, and elevation, but the change in LSA due to fire in the seasonal snow zone (SSZ) is poorly understood. This study addresses this knowledge gap for the Sierra Nevada, where recent climatic changes have contributed to droughts, earlier and more rapidly declining snowpacks, and worsening wildfire impacts. Remotely sensed snow fraction and LSA data from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer were used to assess the impact of wildfire on landscapes in the Sierra Nevada SSZ by comparing LSA in burn scars to unburned control areas and the historical average LSA, then quantifying the surface radiative forcing (RF) associated with change in LSA. Among high and moderate burn severity fires, winter LSA varied depending on snow cover, land characteristics, and burn severity, ranging from 0.12 in low‐snow fire scars to 0.47 in snow‐covered fire scars. This study adds to understanding of how landscapes respond to wildfires and the subsequent impacts on the surface energy balance.
Plain Language Summary
Wildfires alter how the landscape absorbs and reflects sunlight by removing forest canopy and exposing the underlying ground surface, leading to changes in surface temperature. This impact is particularly pronounced in areas that are snow‐covered due to the brightness of snow contrasted with dark canopy. As wildfires become more frequent, intense, and larger, it is crucial to understand how they affect seasonally snow‐covered landscapes. This study focuses on the Sierra Nevada, CA, where recent climate changes have led to more droughts, earlier melting of snow, and intensifying wildfire. We used satellite data to study how wildfires impact landscape reflectance by comparing burned areas to both nearby unburned areas and historical data. We found that great variability was present in landscape response but overall, in the first 4 years after a high or moderate severity wildfire, the snow‐covered areas were brighter in winter compared to unburned areas. Quantifying how absorption of sunlight changes following wildfire helps us understand how landscapes respond to wildfires and how they affect the local climate.
Key Points
Land surface albedo response to fire in the Sierra Nevada seasonal snow zone varies with snow cover, land characteristics, and burn severity
Contrary to current understanding, post‐fire snow‐free dates were variable and not consistently earlier than in surrounding unburned areas
Fire‐induced albedo changes led to greater cooling effect (net negative radiative forcing) in moderate compared to high‐burn severity areas
The strong coupling constant
α
s
is determined from inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in neutral-current deep-inelastic
ep
scattering (DIS) measured at HERA by the H1 collaboration using ...next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD predictions. The dependence of the NNLO predictions and of the resulting value of
α
s
(
m
Z
)
at the
Z
-boson mass
m
Z
are studied as a function of the choice of the renormalisation and factorisation scales. Using inclusive jet and dijet data together, the strong coupling constant is determined to be
α
s
(
m
Z
)
=
0.1157
(
20
)
exp
(
29
)
th
. Complementary,
α
s
(
m
Z
)
is determined together with parton distribution functions of the proton (PDFs) from jet and inclusive DIS data measured by the H1 experiment. The value
α
s
(
m
Z
)
=
0.1142
(
28
)
tot
obtained is consistent with the determination from jet data alone. The impact of the jet data on the PDFs is studied. The running of the strong coupling is tested at different values of the renormalisation scale and the results are found to be in agreement with expectations.
The H1 Collaboration at HERA reports the first measurement of groomed event shape observables in deep inelastic electron-proton scattering (DIS) at
s
=
319
GeV, using data recorded between the years ...2003 and 2007 with an integrated luminosity of 351
pb
-
1
. Event shapes provide incisive probes of perturbative and non-perturbative QCD. Grooming techniques have been used for jet measurements in hadronic collisions; this paper presents the first application of grooming to DIS data. The analysis is carried out in the Breit frame, utilizing the novel Centauro jet clustering algorithm that is designed for DIS event topologies. Events are required to have squared momentum-transfer
Q
2
>
150
GeV
2
and inelasticity
0.2
<
y
<
0.7
. We report measurements of the production cross section of groomed event 1-jettiness and groomed invariant mass for several choices of grooming parameter. Monte Carlo model calculations and analytic calculations based on Soft Collinear Effective Theory are compared to the measurements.
Abstract Exclusive photoproduction of $${{\rho ^0}} (770)$$ ρ 0 ( 770 ) mesons is studied using the H1 detector at the ep collider HERA. A sample of about 900,000 events is used to measure single- ...and double-differential cross sections for the reaction $$\gamma p \rightarrow \pi ^{+}\pi ^{-}Y$$ γ p → π + π - Y . Reactions where the proton stays intact ( $${{{m_Y}} {=}m_p}$$ m Y = m p ) are statistically separated from those where the proton dissociates to a low-mass hadronic system ( $$m_p{<}{{m_Y}} {<}10~{{\text {GeV}}} $$ m p < m Y < 10 GeV ). The double-differential cross sections are measured as a function of the invariant mass $$m_{\pi \pi }$$ m π π of the decay pions and the squared 4-momentum transfer t at the proton vertex. The measurements are presented in various bins of the photon–proton collision energy $${{W_{\gamma p}}} $$ W γ p . The phase space restrictions are $$0.5\le m_{\pi \pi } \le 2.2~{{\text {GeV}}} $$ 0.5 ≤ m π π ≤ 2.2 GeV , $$\vert t\vert \le 1.5~{{\text {GeV}^2}} $$ | t | ≤ 1.5 GeV 2 , and $$20 \le W_{\gamma p} \le 80~{{\text {GeV}}} $$ 20 ≤ W γ p ≤ 80 GeV . Cross section measurements are presented for both elastic and proton-dissociative scattering. The observed cross section dependencies are described by analytic functions. Parametrising the $${m_{\pi \pi }}$$ m π π dependence with resonant and non-resonant contributions added at the amplitude level leads to a measurement of the $${{\rho ^0}} (770)$$ ρ 0 ( 770 ) meson mass and width at $$m_\rho = 770.8{}^{+2.6}_{-2.7}~({\text {tot.}})~{{\text {MeV}}} $$ m ρ = 770.8 - 2.7 + 2.6 ( tot. ) MeV and $$\Gamma _\rho = 151.3 {}^{+2.7}_{-3.6}~({\text {tot.}})~{{\text {MeV}}} $$ Γ ρ = 151.3 - 3.6 + 2.7 ( tot. ) MeV , respectively. The model is used to extract the $${{\rho ^0}} (770)$$ ρ 0 ( 770 ) contribution to the $$\pi ^{+}\pi ^{-}$$ π + π - cross sections and measure it as a function of t and $${W_{\gamma p}}$$ W γ p . In a Regge asymptotic limit in which one Regge trajectory $$\alpha (t)$$ α ( t ) dominates, the intercept $$\alpha (t{=}0) = 1.0654\ {}^{+0.0098}_{-0.0067}~({\text {tot.}})$$ α ( t = 0 ) = 1.0654 - 0.0067 + 0.0098 ( tot. ) and the slope $$\alpha ^\prime (t{=}0) = 0.233 {}^{+0.067 }_{-0.074 }~({\text {tot.}}) ~{{\text {GeV}^{-2}}} $$ α ′ ( t = 0 ) = 0.233 - 0.074 + 0.067 ( tot. ) GeV - 2 of the t dependence are extracted for the case $$m_Y{=}m_p$$ m Y = m p .
A
bstract
The cross section of the diffractive process
e
+
p
→
e
+
Xp
is measured at a centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV, where the system
X
contains at least two jets and the leading final state ...proton
p
is detected in the H1 Very Forward Proton Spectrometer. The measurement is performed in photoproduction with photon virtualities
Q
2
<
2 GeV
2
and in deep-inelastic scattering with 4 GeV
2
< Q
2
<
80 GeV
2
. The results are compared to next- to-leading order QCD calculations based on diffractive parton distribution functions as extracted from measurements of inclusive cross sections in diffractive deep-inelastic scattering.
A
bstract
A measurement is presented of single- and double-differential dijet cross sections in diffractive deep-inelastic
ep
scattering at HERA using data collected by the H1 experiment ...corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 290 pb
−1
. The investigated phase space is spanned by the photon virtuality in the range of 4
< Q
2
<
100 GeV
2
and by the fractional proton longitudinal momentum loss
x
ℙ
<
0
.
03. The resulting cross sections are compared with next-to-leading order QCD predictions based on diffractive parton distribution functions and the value of the strong coupling constant is extracted.
Measurements of normalised cross sections for the production of photons and neutrons at very small angles with respect to the proton beam direction in deep-inelastic
e
p
scattering at HERA are ...presented as a function of the Feynman variable
x
F
and of the centre-of-mass energy of the virtual photon-proton system
W
. The data are taken with the H1 detector in the years 2006 and 2007 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of
131
pb
-
1
. The measurement is restricted to photons and neutrons in the pseudorapidity range
η
>
7.9
and covers the range of negative four momentum transfer squared at the positron vertex
6
<
Q
2
<
100
GeV
2
, of inelasticity
0.05
<
y
<
0.6
and of
70
<
W
<
245
GeV. To test the Feynman scaling hypothesis the
W
dependence of the
x
F
dependent cross sections is investigated. Predictions of deep-inelastic scattering models and of models for hadronic interactions of high energy cosmic rays are compared to the measured cross sections.
(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae and/or non-USASCII text omitted; see image).A combination is presented of all inclusive deep inelastic cross sections previously published by the H1 and ZEUS ...collaborations at HERA for neutral and charged current ... scattering for zero beam polarisation. The data were taken at proton beam energies of 920, 820, 575 and 460 GeV and an electron beam energy of 27.5 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of about 1 fb... and span six orders of magnitude in negative four-momentum-transfer squared, ..., and Bjorken x. The correlations of the systematic uncertainties were evaluated and taken into account for the combination. The combined cross sections were input to QCD analyses at leading order, next-to-leading order and at next-to-next-to-leading order, providing a new set of parton distribution functions, called HERAPDF2.0. In addition to the experimental uncertainties, model and parameterisation uncertainties were assessed for these parton distribution functions. Variants of HERAPDF2.0 with an alternative gluon parameterisation, HERAPDF2.0AG, and using fixed-flavour-number schemes, HERAPDF2.0FF, are presented. The analysis was extended by including HERA data on charm and jet production, resulting in the variant HERAPDF2.0Jets. The inclusion of jet-production cross sections made a simultaneous determination of these parton distributions and the strong coupling constant possible, resulting in ... An extraction of ... and results on electroweak unification and scaling violations are also presented.
A combination is presented of all inclusive deep inelastic cross sections previously published by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA for neutral and charged current $e^{\pm}p$ scattering for zero ...beam polarisation. The data were taken at proton beam energies of 920, 820, 575 and 460 GeV and an electron beam energy of 27.5 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of about 1 fb$^{-1}$ and span six orders of magnitude in negative four-momentum-transfer squared, $Q^2$, and Bjorken $x$. The correlations of the systematic uncertainties were evaluated and taken into account for the combination. The combined cross sections were input to QCD analyses at leading order, next-to-leading order and at next-to-next-to-leading order, providing a new set of parton distribution functions, called HERAPDF2.0. In addition to the experimental uncertainties, model and parameterisation uncertainties were assessed for these parton distribution functions. Variants of HERAPDF2.0 with an alternative gluon parameterisation, HERAPDF2.0AG, and using fixed-flavour-number schemes, HERAPDF2.0FF, are presented. The analysis was extended by including HERA data on charm and jet production, resulting in the variant HERAPDF2.0Jets. The inclusion of jet-production cross sections made a simultaneous determination of these parton distributions and the strong coupling constant possible, resulting in $\alpha_s(M_Z)=0.1183 \pm 0.0009 {\rm(exp)} \pm 0.0005{\rm (model/parameterisation)} \pm 0.0012{\rm (hadronisation)} ^{+0.0037}_{-0.0030}{\rm (scale)}$. An extraction of $xF_3^{\gamma Z}$ and results on electroweak unification and scaling violations are also presented.
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