Measurement of the physical properties of the snowpack

NJ Kinar, JW Pomeroy - Reviews of Geophysics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews measurement techniques and corresponding devices used to determine
the physical properties of the seasonal snowpack from distances close to the ground …

[HTML][HTML] Improving sub-canopy snow depth mapping with unmanned aerial vehicles: lidar versus structure-from-motion techniques

P Harder, JW Pomeroy, WD Helgason - The Cryosphere, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Vegetation has a tremendous influence on snow processes and snowpack dynamics, yet
remote sensing techniques to resolve the spatial variability of sub-canopy snow depth are …

[HTML][HTML] European in-situ snow measurements: practices and purposes

R Pirazzini, L Leppänen, G Picard, JI Lopez-Moreno… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
In-situ snow measurements conducted by European institutions for operational, research,
and energy business applications were surveyed in the framework of the European …

Observations of capillary barriers and preferential flow in layered snow during cold laboratory experiments

F Avanzi, H Hirashima, S Yamaguchi… - The …, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
Data of liquid water flow around a capillary barrier in snow are still limited. To gain insight
into this process, we carried out observations of dyed water infiltration in layered snow at 0∘ …

Modeling the influence of hypsometry, vegetation, and storm energy on snowmelt contributions to basins during rain‐on‐snow floods

NE Wayand, JD Lundquist… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Point observations and previous basin modeling efforts have suggested that snowmelt may
be a significant input of water for runoff during extreme rain‐on‐snow floods within western …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping age and basal conditions of ice in the Dome Fuji region, Antarctica, by combining radar internal layer stratigraphy and flow modeling

Z Wang, A Chung, D Steinhage, F Parrenin… - The …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
The Dome Fuji (DF) region in Antarctica is a potential site for an ice core with a record of
over 1 Myr. Here, we combine large-scale internal airborne radar stratigraphy with a 1-D …

An assessment of two automated snow water equivalent instruments during the WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment

CD Smith, A Kontu, R Laffin, JW Pomeroy - The Cryosphere, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
During the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Solid Precipitation Intercomparison
Experiment (SPICE), automated measurements of snow water equivalent (SWE) were made …

Impact of GPS processing on the estimation of snow water equivalent using refracted GPS signals

L Steiner, M Meindl, C Marty… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antennas buried underneath a snowpack have a
high potential for in situ snow water equivalent (SWE) estimation. Automated and continuous …

Diagnosing snow accumulation errors in a rain‐snow transitional environment with snow board observations

NE Wayand, MP Clark, JD Lundquist - Hydrological Processes, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Diagnosing the source of errors in snow models requires intensive observations, a flexible
model framework to test competing hypotheses, and a methodology to systematically test the …

Dry snow permittivity evaluation from density: A critical review

F Di Paolo, B Cosciotti, SE Lauro… - 2018 17th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys on alpine snow enable a rapid evaluation of snow
thickness but necessitate a measurement of the wave velocity in the snowpack. Such …