Mapping the spatial distribution and time evolution of snow water equivalent with passive microwave measurements
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
By: J. Guo, L. Tsang, E.G. Josberger, A.W. Wood, J.-N. Hwang, and D.P. Lettenmaier
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Abstract
This paper presents an algorithm that estimates the spatial distribution and temporal evolution of snow water equivalent and snow depth based on passive remote sensing measurements. It combines the inversion of passive microwave remote sensing measurements via dense media radiative transfer modeling results with snow accumulation and melt model predictions to yield improved estimates of snow depth and snow water equivalent, at a pixel resolution of 5 arc-min. In the inversion, snow grain size evolution is constrained based on pattern matching by using the local snow temperature history. This algorithm is applied to produce spatial snow maps of Upper Rio Grande River basin in Colorado. The simulation results are compared with that of the snow accumulation and melt model and a linear regression method. The quantitative comparison with the ground truth measurements from four Snowpack Telemetry (SNOTEL) sites in the basin shows that this algorithm is able to improve the estimation of snow parameters.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Mapping the spatial distribution and time evolution of snow water equivalent with passive microwave measurements |
| Series title | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing |
| DOI | 10.1109/TGRS.2003.808907 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 2003 |
| Language | English |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing |
| First page | 612 |
| Last page | 621 |
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