Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2997-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2997-2017
Research article
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19 Dec 2017
Research article |  | 19 Dec 2017

Measuring snow water equivalent from common-offset GPR records through migration velocity analysis

James St. Clair and W. Steven Holbrook

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We investigate the performance of a semiautomated algorithm for measuring snow water equivalent (SWE) from common-offset ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data. GPR-derived SWE estimates are similar to manual measurements, indicating that the method is reliable. Our results will hopefully make GPR a more attractive tool for monitoring SWE in mountain watersheds.