Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high frequency radar remote sensing

L Tsang, M Durand, C Derksen, AP Barros… - The Cryosphere …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
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 …

Passive microwave remote sensing of snow depth: Techniques, challenges and future directions

S Tanniru, R Ramsankaran - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Monitoring snowpack depth is essential in many applications at regional and global scales.
Space-borne passive microwave (PMW) remote sensing observations have been widely …

Quantifying the uncertainty in passive microwave snow water equivalent observations

JL Foster, C Sun, JP Walker, R Kelly, A Chang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2005 - Elsevier
Passive microwave sensors (PM) onboard satellites have the capability to provide global
snow observations which are not affected by cloudiness and night condition (except when …

Cold regions hydrology high-resolution observatory for snow and cold land processes

H Rott, SH Yueh, DW Cline, C Duguay… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Snow is a critical component of the global water cycle and climate system, and a major
source of water supply in many parts of the world. There is a lack of spatially distributed …

A land surface data assimilation framework using the land information system: Description and applications

SV Kumar, RH Reichle, CD Peters-Lidard… - Advances in Water …, 2008 - Elsevier
The Land Information System (LIS) is an established land surface modeling framework that
integrates various community land surface models, ground measurements, satellite-based …

SMRT: An active–passive microwave radiative transfer model for snow with multiple microstructure and scattering formulations (v1. 0)

G Picard, M Sandells, H Löwe - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (SMRT) thermal emission and backscatter model
was developed to determine uncertainties in forward modeling through intercomparison of …

Simulation of the microwave emission of multi-layered snowpacks using the dense media radiative transfer theory: The DMRT-ML model

G Picard, L Brucker, A Roy, F Dupont… - Geoscientific Model …, 2013 - gmd.copernicus.org
DMRT-ML is a physically based numerical model designed to compute the thermal
microwave emission of a given snowpack. Its main application is the simulation of brightness …

Evaluating snow depth retrievals from Sentinel-1 volume scattering over NASA SnowEx sites

Z Hoppinen, RT Palomaki, G Brencher… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Snow depth retrievals from spaceborne C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) backscatter
have the potential to fill an important gap in the remote monitoring of seasonal snow …

The impact of snow depth and snowmelt on the vegetation variability over central Siberia

M Grippa, L Kergoat, T Le Toan… - Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We report the results of a joint analysis of NDVI data derived from NOAA‐AVHRR and snow
parameters (snow depth and snowmelt timing) derived from satellite passive microwave …

Estimating snow depth by combining satellite data and ground-based observations over Alaska: A deep learning approach

J Wang, Q Yuan, H Shen, T Liu, T Li, L Yue, X Shi… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Snow cover plays a vital role in the climate system because it is related to climate,
hydrological cycle, and ecosystem. On this basis, deriving a long-term and large-scale snow …