Marginal snowpacks: The basis for a global definition and existing research needs

JI López-Moreno, N Callow, H McGowan, R Webb… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
A marginal snowpack is a recent concept that refers to snow cover that is relatively shallow
and transient but still has important environmental and socioeconomic functions. This class …

Correction of ICESat-2 terrain within urban areas using a water pump deployment criterion with the vertical contour of the terrain

B Li, H Xie, S Liu, Y Sun, Q Xu, X Tong - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown that the terrain elevation of the ICESat-2's ATL08 product is of
good accuracy, overall, but in urban areas under complex surface conditions, the terrain …

Mountain snow depth retrievals from customized processing of ICESat-2 satellite laser altimetry

H Besso, D Shean, JD Lundquist - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Snow depth is highly variable across basins, yet most snow depth data in the western US
come from sparse in situ point measurements. The water resources community needs …

Spatio-temporal information propagation using sparse observations in hyper-resolution ensemble-based snow data assimilation

E Alonso-González, K Aalstad, N Pirk… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
Data assimilation techniques that integrate available observations with snow models have
been proposed as a viable option to simultaneously help constrain model uncertainty and …

Evaluation of snow depth retrievals from ICESat-2 using airborne laser-scanning data

C Deschamps-Berger, S Gascoin… - The Cryosphere …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
The unprecedented precision of the altimetry satellite ICESat-2 and the increasing
availability of high-resolution elevation datasets open new opportunities to measure snow …

Evaluating snow depth retrievals from Sentinel-1 volume scattering over NASA SnowEx sites

Z Hoppinen, RT Palomaki, G Brencher… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Snow depth retrievals from spaceborne C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) backscatter
have the potential to fill an important gap in the remote monitoring of seasonal snow …

A Novel ICESat-2 Signal Photon Extraction Method Based on Convolutional Neural Network

W Qin, Y Song, Y Zou, H Zhu, H Guan - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
When it comes to the application of the photon data gathered by the Ice, Cloud, and Land
Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), accurately removing noise is crucial. In particular …

Snowpack relative permittivity and density derived from near‐coincident lidar and ground‐penetrating radar

R Bonnell, D McGrath, AR Hedrick… - Hydrological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Depth‐based and radar‐based remote sensing methods (eg, lidar, synthetic aperture radar)
are promising approaches for remotely measuring snow water equivalent (SWE) at high …

Error-Reduced Digital Elevation Model of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using ICESat-2 and Fusion Model

X Zhang, S Guo, B Yuan, H Mu, Z Xia, P Tang, H Fang… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) holds significance for investigating Earth's surface
processes. However, due to rugged terrain, forest canopy, and snow accumulation, open …

Glacier mass change and evolution of Petrov Lake in the Ak-Shyirak massif, central Tien Shan, from 1973 to 2023 using multisource satellite data

Y Wang, D Zheng, Y Zhou, Y Nian, S Ren… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Warming in the Third Pole region accelerates glacier and snow melt, leading to a
rise in glacial lake numbers and sizes. However, accurately measuring their water level …