Snow water equivalent in the Alps as seen by gridded data sets, CMIP5 and CORDEX climate models [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2017 The estimate of the current and future conditions of snow resources in mountain areas would require reliable, kilometre-resolution, regional-observation-based gridded data sets and climate models capable of properly representing snow processes and snow–
S. Terzago +3 more
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Accuracy of Manual Snow Sampling, Depending on the Sampler’s Cross-Section—A Comparative Study
Geosciences, 2023 Snow sampling, either by inserting a tube through the entire snowpack or by taking samples from the vertical profile, is widely applied to measure the snow depth, density, and snow water equivalent (SWE).
Marko Kaasik +10 more
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An Overview of Snow Water Equivalent: Methods, Challenges, and Future Outlook
Sustainability, 2022 The snow depth or snow water equivalent affects water, carbon, and energy cycles as well as surface–atmosphere interactions. Therefore, the global monitoring of spatiotemporal changes in snow water equivalent is a crucial issue, which is performed by ...
M. Taheri, A. Mohammadian
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Isolating forest process effects on modelled snowpack density and snow water equivalent
Hydrological Processes, 2022 Understanding how the presence of a forest canopy influences the underlying snowpack is critical to making accurate model predictions of bulk snow density and snow water equivalent (SWE). To investigate the relative importance of forest processes on snow
Hannah M. Bonner, M. Raleigh, E. Small
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Snow Water Equivalent of Dry Snow Measured by Differential Interferometry [PDF]
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2015 Large scale mapping of snow water equivalent (SWE) is a long-lasting request in many scientific and economical fields. Active and passive microwave remote sensing methods are explored, as local methods cannot be generalized due to the spatial inhomogeneity of the snow pack. Microwaves interact with snow by absorption, scattering, and refraction.
Silvan Leinss +3 more
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Seasonal snow cover indicators in coastal Greenland from in situ observations, a climate model, and reanalysis [PDF]
The CryosphereSeasonal snow cover has important climatic and ecological implications for the ice-free regions of coastal Greenland. Here we present, for the first time, a dataset of quality-controlled snow depth measurements from nine locations in coastal Greenland ...
J. van der Schot +11 more
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Modeling bulk density and snow water equivalent using daily snow depth observations [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2014 Bulk density is a fundamental property of snow relating its depth and mass. Previously, two simple models of bulk density (depending on snow depth, date, and location) have been developed to convert snow depth observations to snow water equivalent (SWE ...
J. L. McCreight, E. E. Small
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Spatio-temporal influence of tundra snow properties on Ku-band (17.2 GHz) backscatter [PDF]
, 2015 During the 2010/11 boreal winter, a distributed set of backscatter measurements was collected using a ground-based Ku-band (17.2 GHz) scatterometer system at 26 open tundra sites.
Derksen, Chris +7 more
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Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Using Active and Passive Microwave Observations
Water Resources Research, 2021 This paper implements a newly developed combined active and passive algorithm for the retrieval of snow water equivalent (SWE) by using three‐channel active and two‐channel passive observations.
Jiyue Zhu +4 more
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The Cryosphere, 2021 . Snow water equivalent (SWE) can be measured using low-cost Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) sensors with one antenna placed below the snowpack and another one serving as a reference above the snow.
Achille Capelli +6 more
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