Towards automated 'ground truth' snow measurements-a review of operational and new measurement methods for Sweden, Norway, and Finland

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1955-1970

  Lundberg, Angela ^a   Granlund, Nils ^a   Gustafsson, David ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ground truth; Ground penetrating radar; Review; now measurement technique'; Snow

Indexed keywords

COLD REGIONS; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; DRY SNOW; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; FINLAND; FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; GROUND TRUTH; GROUND-BASED TECHNIQUES; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; NEW MEASUREMENT METHOD; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW MASS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY PROBES; WET SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COSMOLOGY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MONITORING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SENSORS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

SNOW MAKING;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

FINLAND; NORWAY; SWEDEN;

EID: 77954377479     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7658     Document Type: Article

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