Canadian historical Snow Water Equivalent dataset (CanSWE, 1928–2020) [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2021 In situ measurements of water equivalent of snow cover (SWE) – the vertical depth of water that would be obtained if all the snow cover melted completely – are used in many applications including water management, flood forecasting, climate monitoring ...
V. Vionnet +4 more
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Investigating ANN architectures and training to estimate snow water equivalent from snow depth [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2021 Canada's water cycle is driven mainly by snowmelt. Snow water equivalent (SWE) is the snow-related variable that is most commonly used in hydrology, as it expresses the total quantity of water (solid and liquid) stored in the snowpack.
K. F. F. Ntokas +4 more
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Evaluation of long-term Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent products [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2020 Nine gridded Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent (SWE) products were evaluated as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Satellite Snow Product Intercomparison and Evaluation Exercise (SnowPEx).
C. Mortimer +6 more
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Effect of snow microstructure variability on Ku-band radar snow water equivalent retrievals [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2019 Spatial variability in snowpack properties negatively impacts our capacity to make direct measurements of snow water equivalent (SWE) using satellites.
N. Rutter +12 more
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Retrieval of Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent Using Dual Polarization SAR Data
Remote Sensing, 2020 This paper deals with the retrieval of snow depth (SD) and snow water equivalent (SWE) using dual-polarization (HH-VV) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.
Akshay Patil +2 more
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Solving Challenges of Assimilating Microwave Remote Sensing Signatures With a Physical Model to Estimate Snow Water Equivalent. [PDF]
Water Resour Res, 2021 Global monitoring of seasonal snow water equivalent (SWE) has advanced significantly over the past decades. However, challenges remain when estimating SWE from passive and active microwave signatures, because a priori characterization of snow properties ...
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Changes in seasonal snow water equivalent distribution in High Mountain Asia (1987 to 2009). [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2018 Changes (1987 to 2009) in snow-water storage in High Mountain Asia are highly spatially and seasonally heterogeneous. Snow meltwaters account for most of the yearly water budgets of many catchments in High Mountain Asia (HMA).
Smith T, Bookhagen B.
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NH-SWE: Northern Hemisphere Snow Water Equivalent dataset based on in situ snow depth time series
Earth System Science Data, 2023 . Ground-based datasets of observed snow water equivalent (SWE) are scarce, while gridded SWE estimates from remote-sensing and climate reanalysis are unable to resolve the high spatial variability of snow on the ground.
Adrià Fontrodona-Bach +4 more
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The Cryosphere, 2023 . Given the tradeoffs between spatial and temporal resolution, questions about resolution optimality are fundamental to the study of global snow.
Edward H. Bair +5 more
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Review Article: Global Monitoring of Snow Water Equivalent using High Frequency Radar Remote Sensing
The Cryosphere, 2021 . Seasonal snow cover is the largest single component of the cryosphere in areal extent, covering an average of 46 million square km of Earth's surface (31 % of the land area) each year, and is thus an important expression of and driver of the Earth’s ...
L. Tsang +26 more
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