Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5465-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5465-2025
Research article
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07 Nov 2025
Research article |  | 07 Nov 2025

Snow Water Equivalent from airborne Ku-band data: the Trail Valley Creek 2018/19 snow experiment

Benoit Montpetit, Julien Meloche, Vincent Vionnet, Chris Derksen, Georgina Woolley, Nicolas R. Leroux, Paul Siqueira, J. Max Adam, and Mike Brady

Data sets

TVC Experiment 2018/19: Soil Vegetation Snow Version 2, land surface model output Benoit Montpetit et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15690838

Model code and software

TVCExp18-19_SWE Benoit Montpetit et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17155098

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Short summary
This paper presents the workflow to retrieve snow water equivalent from radar measurements for the future Canadian radar satellite mission, Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission. The workflow is validated by using airborne radar data collected at Trail Valley Creek, Canada, during winter 2018–2019. We detail important considerations to have in the context of a satellite mission over a vast region such as Canada. Results show that it is possible to achieve the desired accuracy over an Arctic environment.
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