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Snow water equivalent retrieved from X- and dual Ku-band scatterometer measurements at Sodankylä using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method
Jinmei Pan
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National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Michael Durand
School of Earth Science and Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Juha Lemmetyinen
Space and Earth Observation Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
Desheng Liu
Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Jiancheng Shi
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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Short summary
We developed an algorithm to estimate snow mass using X- and dual Ku-band radar, and tested it in a ground-based experiment. The algorithm, the Bayesian-based Algorithm for SWE Estimation (BASE) using active microwaves, achieved an RMSE of 30 mm for snow water equivalent. These results demonstrate the potential of radar, a highly promising sensor, to map snow mass at high spatial resolution.
We developed an algorithm to estimate snow mass using X- and dual Ku-band radar, and tested it...
