Design of a scanning laser meter for monitoring the spatio-temporal
evolution of snow depth and its application in the Alps and in Antarctica

Picard, Ghislain; Arnaud, Laurent; Panel, Jean-Michel; Morin, Samuel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1495-2016

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18 Jul 2016

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| 18 Jul 2016

Design of a scanning laser meter for monitoring the spatio-temporal evolution of snow depth and its application in the Alps and in Antarctica

Ghislain Picard, Laurent Arnaud, Jean-Michel Panel, and Samuel Morin

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Final revised paper (published on 18 Jul 2016)
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RC1: 'Review of "Spatio-temporal evolution of snow depth observed by time-lapse laser scanning in the Alps and in Antarctica"', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Apr 2016
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Ghislain Picard, 02 Jun 2016
RC2: 'Review tc-2016-67', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 May 2016
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Ghislain Picard, 02 Jun 2016

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AR by Ghislain Picard on behalf of the Authors (02 Jun 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (17 Jun 2016) by Mareile Wolff

AR by Ghislain Picard on behalf of the Authors (20 Jun 2016)

Short summary

A cost-effective automatic laser scan has been built to measure snow depth spatio-temporal variations. Deployed in the Alps and in Dome C (Antarctica), two devices acquired daily scans covering a surface area of 100–150 m². The precision and long-term stability of the measurements are about 1 cm and the accuracy is better than 5 cm. These high performances are particularly suited at Dome C, where it was possible to reveal that most of the accumulation in the year 2015 stems from a single event.