C12A:
Advancements in Measurement of Snow Water Equivalent Using Coincident Ground and Airborne Data I


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Session ID#: 60727

Session Description:
Accurate measurement of snow-water equivalent (SWE) enables improved management of freshwater resources and enhances our understanding of the Earth’s weather and climate. However reliable satellite-based remote sensing of SWE remains elusive. In order to improve techniques for accurately sensing SWE across the globe, several coincident ground and airborne snow measurement campaigns have taken place recently in many different countries (a non-exhaustive list includes SnowEx, CLPX, NoSREx, AlpSAR, TVCEx). All had a common goal of improving SWE measurement using a multi-sensor approach combined with modeling. Consequently, the conveners solicit papers on results and lessons learned from past measurement campaigns, and potential synergies required to improve campaigns planned in the near future. In addition, papers that use any combination of modelling, remote sensing and in-situ studies with a focus for improved measurement and/or modelling of SWE and snow energy balance are strongly encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Dorothy K Hall, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States
Conveners:  Nick Rutter, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and Jessica D Lundquist, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dorothy K Hall, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States
Chairs:  Nick Rutter, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and Jessica D Lundquist, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Dorothy K Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0794 Instruments and techniques [CRYOSPHERE]
0798 Modeling [CRYOSPHERE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SnowEx 2019 - A time series airborne and field experiment in multiple snow climates (433663)
Hans-Peter Marshall1, Jeffrey S Deems2, Elias J Deeb3, Glen E Liston4, Dorothy K Hall5, Gatebe Charles6, Chris Derksen7, Leung Tsang8, Edward J Kim6, Thomas H Painter9, Melody J Sandells10, Paul Houser11, Noah P Molotch12 and Adele Reinking4, (1)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Mammoth Lakes, United States, (3)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Fort Collins, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Reseach Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (8)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (9)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, (11)George Mason University Fairfax, Geography and Geoinformation Sciences, Fairfax, United States, (12)University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States
Retrieval of Snow Water Equivalent from active and passive ground-based and airborne observations during the NoSREx campaign (Invited) (415035)
Juha Lemmetyinen1, Chris Derksen2, Helmut Rott3, G Macelloni4, Joshua M King2, Martin Schneebeli5, Andreas Wiesmann6, Leena Leppänen1, Anna Kontu1 and Jouni Pulliainen1, (1)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (2)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Reseach Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)ENVEO Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria, (4)Institute of Applied Physics, Microwave Remote Sensing Group, Fiorentino, Italy, (5)WSL Inst. Snow & Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (6)Gamma Remote Sensing, Guemligen, Switzerland
Quantification of Snow Water Equivalent Using Buried Low Cost GPS Antennas in Alpine Terrain (394817)
Ladina Steiner, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Michael Meindl, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland and Alain Geiger, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Zurich, Switzerland
An Airborne Mission Simulator at X- and Ku-bands driven by SnowEx 2017 Data (407451)
Do-Hyuk DK Kang, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Jiyue Zhu, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Shurun Tan, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute, Haining, China, Leung Tsang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States and Edward J Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
A Combined Active and Passive SWE Retrieval Algorithm Using SnowEx 2017 and Finland NoSREx datasets (428427)
Jiyue Zhu, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Shurun Tan, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute, Haining, China, Leung Tsang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, Edward J Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Do-Hyuk DK Kang, Fedwriters, Silver Spring, United States
Polarimetric and interferometric analysis of L-Band airborne data over Western United States during the NASA SnowEx 2017 field campaign (452534)
Elias J Deeb, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Richard R Forster, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Cathleen E Jones, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Marco Lavalle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Using Low Cost Commercial UAVs to Measure Snow Depth and Surface Change (447540)
Manuel Salgado, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Andrew George Klein, Texas A & M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States

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