Calibration of a non-invasive cosmic-ray probe for wide area snow water  equivalent measurement

Sigouin, Mark J. P.; Si, Bing C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1181-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1181-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1181-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

Research article

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01 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 01 Jun 2016

Calibration of a non-invasive cosmic-ray probe for wide area snow water equivalent measurement

Mark J. P. Sigouin and Bing C. Si

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Final revised paper (published on 01 Jun 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 15 Jan 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Reviewer Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Jan 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Referee #1', Mark Sigouin, 08 Apr 2016
RC2: 'Review of “Calibration of a non-invasive cosmic-ray probe for wide area snow water equivalent measurement“', Heye Bogena, 27 Jan 2016
- RC3: 'A couple of counterpoints to Reviewer 2', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Feb 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Referee #2', Mark Sigouin, 08 Apr 2016
SC1: 'About footprint characteristics', Gabriele Baroni, 29 Feb 2016
- AC3: 'Response to short comment', Mark Sigouin, 08 Apr 2016

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Mark Sigouin on behalf of the Authors (15 Apr 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (08 May 2016) by Philip Marsh

AR by Mark Sigouin on behalf of the Authors (17 May 2016)

Short summary

The cosmic-ray soil moisture probe (CRP) uses the natural above ground neutron intensity to measure soil water content at a landscape scale. The goal of our research was to use the CRP to monitor how much water is in snowpacks, since snow and soil water affect neutron intensity similarly. We developed a relationship between neutron intensity and snow water. We used the relationship to estimate snow water non-invasively in an area of ~ 300 m radius using neutron intensity readings from the CRP.