Toward snow cover estimation in mountainous areas using modern data assimilation methods: A review

C Largeron, M Dumont, S Morin, A Boone… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
The snow cover is a key component of land surface hydrology, especially in mountain areas
where it governs the amount and timing of water availability in downstream areas. It is …

Data assimilation improves estimates of climate-sensitive seasonal snow

M Girotto, KN Musselman, RLH Essery - Current Climate Change Reports, 2020‏ - Springer
As the Earth warms, the spatial and temporal response of seasonal snow remains uncertain.
The global snow science community estimates snow cover and mass with information from …

Data assimilation methods in the Earth sciences

RH Reichle - Advances in water resources, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Although remote sensing data are often plentiful, they do not usually satisfy the users' needs
directly. Data assimilation is required to extract information about geophysical fields of …

A Landsat-era Sierra Nevada snow reanalysis (1985–2015)

SA Margulis, G Cortés, M Girotto… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
A newly developed state-of-the-art snow water equivalent (SWE) reanalysis dataset over the
Sierra Nevada (United States) based on the assimilation of remotely sensed fractional snow …

Exploring the impact of forcing error characteristics on physically based snow simulations within a global sensitivity analysis framework

MS Raleigh, JD Lundquist… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2015‏ - hess.copernicus.org
Physically based models provide insights into key hydrologic processes but are associated
with uncertainties due to deficiencies in forcing data, model parameters, and model …

SMRT: An active–passive microwave radiative transfer model for snow with multiple microstructure and scattering formulations (v1. 0)

G Picard, M Sandells, H Löwe - Geoscientific Model …, 2018‏ - gmd.copernicus.org
The Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (SMRT) thermal emission and backscatter model
was developed to determine uncertainties in forward modeling through intercomparison of …

A particle batch smoother approach to snow water equivalent estimation

SA Margulis, M Girotto, G Cortés… - Journal of …, 2015‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper presents a newly proposed data assimilation method for historical snow water
equivalent SWE estimation using remotely sensed fractional snow-covered area fSCA. The …

[HTML][HTML] Improving snow depth estimation by coupling HUT-optimized effective snow grain size parameters with the random forest approach

JW Yang, LM Jiang, J Lemmetyinen, JM Pan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Snow cover is highly critical for global water and energy cycles because of its wide areal
extent, high reflectivity and good thermal insulation. Knowledge of snow conditions, eg …

Simulation of the microwave emission of multi-layered snowpacks using the dense media radiative transfer theory: The DMRT-ML model

G Picard, L Brucker, A Roy, F Dupont… - Geoscientific Model …, 2013‏ - gmd.copernicus.org
DMRT-ML is a physically based numerical model designed to compute the thermal
microwave emission of a given snowpack. Its main application is the simulation of brightness …