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Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3199-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3199-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
Research article
 | 
10 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 10 Aug 2022

Comparison of manual snow water equivalent (SWE) measurements: seeking the reference for a true SWE value in a boreal biome

Maxime Beaudoin-Galaise and Sylvain Jutras

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Our study presents an analysis of the uncertainty and measurement error of manual measurement methods of the snow water equivalent (SWE). Snow pit and snow sampler measurements were taken during five consecutive winters. Our results show that, although the snow pit is considered a SWE reference in the literature, it is a method with higher uncertainty and measurement error than large diameter samplers, considered according to our results as the most appropriate reference in a boreal biome.
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