Snow measurement techniques for land-surface-atmosphere exchange studies in boreal landscapes |
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Authors: | A Lundberg S Halldin |
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Institution: | Division of Water Resources Research, Lule? University of Technology, Lule?, Sweden, SE Institute of Earth Sciences/Hydrology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, SE
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Abstract: | Summary Snow has been studied widely in hydrology for many decades whereas recent meteorological interest in snow is caused by increased
emphasis on high latitudes and wintertime in climate-change research as well as by the need to improve weather-forecast models
during these conditions. Ground-based measurements of snow properties are needed both to improve understanding of surface-atmosphere
exchange processes and to provide ground truth to new remote-sensing algorithms. This justifies a review of techniques to
measure snow in combination with establishment of criteria for the suitability of the methods for process studies. This review
assesses the state-of-art in ground-based snow-measurement techniques in the end of the 1990s in view of their accuracy, time
resolution, possibility to automate, practicality and suitability in different terrain. Methods for snow-pack water equivalent,
depth, density, growth, quality, liquid-water content and water leaving the snow pack are reviewed. Synoptic snow measurements
in Fennoscandian countries are widely varying and there is no single standard on which process-related studies can build.
A long-term, continuous monitoring of mass and energy properties of a snow cover requires a combination of point-measurement
techniques. Areally representative values of snow properties can be achieved through a combination of automatically collected
point data with repeated manual, areally covering measurements, remote-sensing data and digital elevation models, preferably
in a GIS framework.
Received August 27, 1999 |
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