Title: Snow measurements using GPR: example from Amundsenisen, Svalbard
Abstract:Snow distribution in mid- and high-latitude landscapes plays a key role in defining energy and moisture relationships associated with earth's climate system. The spatial distribution of snow is critic...Snow distribution in mid- and high-latitude landscapes plays a key role in defining energy and moisture relationships associated with earth's climate system. The spatial distribution of snow is critical for accurate assessment and forecasting of snowmelt timing (Luce et al. 1998), snowmelt volume (Elder et al. 1991), avalanche hazard (Birkeland et al. 1995, Conway and Abrahamson 1984) and glacier mass balance modelling (e.g. Schuler et al. 2007) for initialisation of synoptic- and global-scale weather and climate models (Liston 1999). Traditional areal snow surveys are typically performed along lines, where snow depth measurements are done with graduated rods and snow density samples taken with a snow tube. Those methods are very time consuming and laborious and thus costly. Over the past decades, there has been a growing interest in looking at and developing new less time-consuming methods. Pomeroy and Gray (1995) gives a description of several of these methods.Read More
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-10-02
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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