Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2949-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2949-2025
Research article
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07 Aug 2025
Research article |  | 07 Aug 2025

Radar-equivalent snowpack: reducing the number of snow layers while retaining their microwave properties and bulk snow mass

Julien Meloche, Nicolas R. Leroux, Benoit Montpetit, Vincent Vionnet, and Chris Derksen

Model code and software

Radar equivalent snowpack J. Meloche https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16617755

ode of the land surface scheme Soil Vegetation and Snow version 2 integrated in the MESH platform (v1.0.0) V. Vionnet et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14859640

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Short summary
Measuring snow mass from radar measurements is possible with information on snow and a radar model to link the measurements to snow. A key variable in a retrieval is the number of snow layers, with more layers yielding richer information but at increased computational cost. Here, we show the capabilities of a new method for simplifying a complex snowpack while preserving the scattering behavior of the snowpack and conserving its mass.
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