C13E:
Remote Sensing of Seasonal Snow Posters


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Session ID#: 53334

Session Description:
Over a billion people globally depend on snowmelt runoff to meet water demands, predominantly from snow that accumulates annually in mid-latitude mountains. Decades of observations show this natural reservoir is at risk; snow water equivalent and snow extent are declining; even as growing populations rely more on snow water resources and the vast infrastructural networks that have been set up to store and transport runoff. This session will focus on monitoring seasonal snow and snow water resources from spaceborne and airborne (manned and unmanned aircraft) platforms. Presentations will address a range of topics including instrument and platform development, targeted campaigns, new and historical observations, analysis methods and techniques, multi-sensor combinations, scientific and operational applications, model integration and validation, and results from recent campaigns. We welcome submissions from a diversity of sensor types and measurement methods (e.g. radar, lidar, imaging spectroscopy, photogrammetry) and applications.
Primary Convener:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Kathryn J Bormann, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Andrew R Hedrick, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Boise, ID, United States and Oliver Wigmore, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Chairs:  Oliver Wigmore, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Andrew R Hedrick, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Andrew R Hedrick, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0772 Distribution [CRYOSPHERE]
1863 Snow and ice [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Uncertainty Quantification and Reduced-Order Error Modeling for Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow (444201)
Yueqian Cao and Ana Paula Barros, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Continuous Validation of EUMETSAT-HSAF Fractional Snow Cover Product (H12) by using Sentinel-2A Data (405871)
Semih Kuter, Cankiri Karatekin University, Cankiri, Turkey and Zuhal Akyurek, METU, Ankara, Turkey
Decadal Monitoring of Snow Coverage by using High-Resolution MODIS Product over Himalayas (357467)
Nawaraj Sanjel, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal and Sunal Ojha, Solstice Canada Corp, Canada, AB, Canada
Determining Snow Line Elevation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya from 2000 to 2017 using MODSCAG (384691)
Chelsea Ackroyd, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Kathryn J Bormann, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Improving MODIS Snow Cover Product’s Accuracy over Western Himalayas using MODIS LST Data (389928)
Smarika Kulshrestha1, Raaj Ramsankaran2 and Anita Chandrasekharan2, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Civil Engineering, Mumbai, India
Evaluation of Pleaides-derived snow height map using Airborne Snow Observatory data (359370)
César Deschamps-Berger, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain, Simon Gascoin, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, Etienne Berthier, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, Marie Dumont, Météo-France -CNRS CNRM/CEN, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, Ethan D Gutmann, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Jeffrey S Deems, Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Mammoth Lakes, United States
NASA Airborne Snow Observatory: Analysis of Snow Algae in the Sierra Nevada Snowpack (362835)
Elizabeth Carey, Airborne Snow Observatories Inc., Mammoth Lakes, CA, United States, Kathryn J Bormann, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, S. McKenzie Skiles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Thomas H Painter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Basin scale comparison of lidar and structure from motion photogrammetry DEMs from the Airborne Snow Observatory (381590)
Joachim Meyer, Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
NASA Airborne Snow Observatory: Measuring Spatial Distribution of Snow Water Equivalent and Snow Albedo (394065)
Lorraine Sposto, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael Joyce, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Scaling Remotely Sensed Surface Temperatures of Forests and Melting Snow (364309)
Steven Pestana1, Jessica D Lundquist1, Chris Chickadel2, Clare Webster3, Adrian Harpold4, Scott Tyler5, Henry Pai6 and Tihomir S Kostadinov7, (1)University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (4)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States, (5)University of Nevada Reno, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States, (6)Northwest River Forecast Center, National Weather Service, NOAA, Portland, OR, United States, (7)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States
Retrieval of Snow Depth over Arctic Sea Ice using a Deep Neural Network Approach (449472)
Jiping LIU1, Yuanyuan Zhang2 and Xiao Cheng2, (1)University at Albany State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, (2)Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
A Decade of Spatiotemporal Variability of Snow Persistence in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica from Object-Based Classification of High Resolution Satellite Imagery (465203)
Madeline Myers, Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Krista F Myers, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Peter T Doran, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States

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