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Evaluating snow depth retrievals from Sentinel-1 volume scattering over NASA SnowEx sites
Zachary Hoppinen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725, USA
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Engineer Research and Development Center, United States Army, 72 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Ross T. Palomaki
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, 4001 Discovery Dr, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
George Brencher
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Devon Dunmire
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, CU Boulder, 4001 Discovery Dr, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Eric Gagliano
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Adrian Marziliano
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Jack Tarricone
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA
NASA Postdoctoral Program, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA
Hans-Peter Marshall
Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725, USA
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Miguel A. Aguayo, Alejandro N. Flores, James P. McNamara, Hans-Peter Marshall, and Jodi Mead
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2020-451, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2020-451, 2020
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Short summary
This study uses radar imagery from the Sentinel-1 satellite to derive snow depth from increases in the returning energy. These retrieved depths are then compared to nine lidar-derived snow depths across the western United State to assess the ability of this technique to be used to monitor global snow distributions. We also qualitatively compare the changes in underlying Sentinel-1 amplitudes against both the total lidar snow depths and nine automated snow monitoring stations.
This study uses radar imagery from the Sentinel-1 satellite to derive snow depth from increases...
