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Articles | Volume 18, issue 8
Articles | Volume 18, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3765-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3765-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 8
Research article
 | 
22 Aug 2024
Research article |  | 22 Aug 2024

Evaluating L-band InSAR snow water equivalent retrievals with repeat ground-penetrating radar and terrestrial lidar surveys in northern Colorado

Randall Bonnell, Daniel McGrath, Jack Tarricone, Hans-Peter Marshall, Ella Bump, Caroline Duncan, Stephanie Kampf, Yunling Lou, Alex Olsen-Mikitowicz, Megan Sears, Keith Williams, Lucas Zeller, and Yang Zheng

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3765-2024-supplement

Data sets

Data from: L-band InSAR SWE retrievals over Northern Colorado Randall Bonnell et al. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mkkwh7189

SnowEx21 Cameron Pass Ground Penetrating Radar, Version 1 Randall Bonnell et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/SRWGLYCB6ZC4

SnowEx20 Time Series Snow Pit Measurements, Version 1 M. Mason et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/POT9E0FFUUD1

SnowEx21 Time Series Snow Pits, Version 1 M. Mason et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/QIANJYJGRWOV

Joe Wright USDA https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=551

Lake Irene USDA https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=565

Willow Park USDA https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=870

Phantom Valley USDA https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=688

Cameron Peak Fire stream and weather data WY2021 S. Kampf et al. https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/a15f503ab00b4980a4bfbe7e8552f9a3

Cameron Pass NASA SnowEx K. Williams https://tls.unavco.org/projects/U-077/

Rocky Mountains, Colorado Flight Line NASA UAVSAR https://doi.org/10.5067/7PEQV8SVR4DM

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Short summary
Snow provides water for billions of people, but the amount of snow is difficult to detect remotely. During the 2020 and 2021 winters, a radar was flown over mountains in Colorado, USA, to measure the amount of snow on the ground, while our team collected ground observations to test the radar technique’s capabilities. The technique yielded accurate measurements of the snowpack that had good correlation with ground measurements, making it a promising application for the upcoming NISAR satellite.
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