Water equivalent
Multi Satellite and Sensor Derived Trends and Variation of Snow Water Equivalent on the High Latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere
... The Earth is currently experiencing the latest inter-gla- cial era of a long period of glaciations that stretch back to the late Tertiary [8]. To date our most robust global data records for snow water ...
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Measuring snow water equivalent from common-offset GPR records through migration velocity analysis
... of water resources rely on long-term relationships between stream discharge and snowpack mon- itoring at isolated locations, which are less reliable during abnormal snow ...snow water equivalent ...
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Changes in the snow water equivalent in mountainous basins in Slovakia over recent decades
... The correctness of the simulated values of the snow water equivalent was verified by comparing them with the weekly measured data of the SWE in each altitude zone for the pe- riod of 1981–2000. We compared ...
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THE EVALUATION OF MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS OF WATER EQUIVALENT PHANTOM MATERIALS AND RHIZOPHORA SPP. PARTICLEBOARDS BY USING COMPTON SCATTERING METHOD
... 2010). Water has been recommended as a standard phantom material for measurements at high energy photons due to its effective atomic number and mass density close to average human soft ...of water has ...
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Daily gridded datasets of snow depth and snow water equivalent for the Iberian Peninsula from 1980 to 2014
... Abstract. We present snow observations and a validated daily gridded snowpack dataset that was simulated from downscaled reanalysis of data for the Iberian Peninsula. The Iberian Peninsula has long-lasting seasonal ...
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Large scale snow water equivalent status monitoring: comparison of different snow water products in the upper Colorado Basin
... Efforts to monitor snowpack status for large areas from remotely sensed data have mainly focused on snow covered area (SCA) mapping (Bales et al., 2008; Kelly et al., 2003; Robinson et al., 1993; Tekeli et al., 2005); ...
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A model for the spatial distribution of snow water equivalent parameterized from the spatial variability of precipitation
... snow water equivalent (SWE), parameterized solely from observed spatial variabil- ity of precipitation, is compared with the current snow distri- bution model used in the operational flood forecasting mod- ...
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Snow water equivalent modeling components in NewAge-JGrass
... snow water equivalent models as part of the hydrological modeling system ...snow water equivalent is simulated for three different mea- surement stations for two snow model ...snow ...
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Calibration of a non-invasive cosmic-ray probe for wide area snow water equivalent measurement
... snow water equivalent (SWE) is impor- tant for many hydrological purposes such as modelling and flood ...soil water storage be- fore snowfall between both winters because the CRP read- ing appeared ...
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Continuous and autonomous snow water equivalent measurements by a cosmic ray sensor on an alpine glacier
... Abstract. Snow water equivalent (SWE) measurements of seasonal snowpack are crucial in many research fields. Yet accurate measurements at a high temporal resolution are dif- ficult to obtain in high ...
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Effect of snow microstructure variability on Ku-band radar snow water equivalent retrievals
... Abstract. Spatial variability in snowpack properties nega- tively impacts our capacity to make direct measurements of snow water equivalent (SWE) using satellites. A comprehen- sive data set of snow ...
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Using machine learning for real-time estimates of snow water equivalent in the watersheds of Afghanistan
... Abstract. In the mountains, snowmelt often provides most of the runoff. Operational estimates use imagery from optical and passive microwave sensors, but each has its limitations. An accurate approach, which we validate ...
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Estimating the snow water equivalent on a glacierized high elevation site (Forni Glacier, Italy)
... snow water equivalent, SWE) measured by an automatic weather station (AWS) and corroborated by data from field campaigns on the Forni Glacier in ...mm water equivalent (if compared with snow ...
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An assessment of two automated snow water equivalent instruments during the WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment
... snow water equivalent (SWE) is vi- tal for flood and water resource forecasting, drought moni- toring, climate trend analysis, and hydrological and climate model initialization (Barnett et ...much ...
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Snow Water Equivalent Estimation for a Snow Covered Prairie Grass Field by GPS Interferometric Reflectometry
... Snow water equivalent (SWE) measurements are neces- sary for the management of water supply and flood con- trol systems in seasonal snow-covered ...of water stored in ...National Water ...
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Remote Sensing, Model Derived and Ground Measurements of Snow Water Equivalent and Snow Density in Alaska
... Snow water equivalent (SWE) is important for investigations of annual to decadal-scale changes in A and energy-water cycles. Passive microwave satellite-based retrieval algorithm estimates of SWE now ...
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Modelling the spatial variability of snow water equivalent at the catchment scale
... to the spatial distribution of snow water equivalent (SWE) (Pomeroy et al., 2004; Luce et al., 1998; Buttle and McDon- nel, 1987). The shape of the distribution is important in order to describe the ...
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An assessment of sub-snow GPS for quantification of snow water equivalent
... Abstract. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) con- tribute to various Earth observation applications. The present study investigates the potential and limitations of the Global Positioning System (GPS) to estimate ...
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Snow water equivalent in the Alps as seen by gridded data sets, CMIP5 and CORDEX climate models
... snow water equivalent and the ampli- tude of its annual cycle are reproduced quite differently by the different remote sensing and reanalysis data sets, which in fact exhibit a large spread around the ...
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A Comparative Evaluation of Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent Using Empirical Algorithms and Multivariate regressions
... to water resources management, such as investigation on surface water, groundwater, snow and ice, dynamic monitoring of ecology, estimation of water amount necessary for keeping and recovering ...
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