Seasonal alpine snow contributes significantly to the water resource. It plays a crucial role in
regulating the environmental feedback and from the perspective of socio-economic …

Seasonal snow is an essential water resource in many mountain regions. However, the
spatio-temporal variability in mountain snow depth or snow water equivalent (SWE) at …

Cold regions, including high-latitude and high-altitude landscapes, are experiencing
profound environmental changes driven by global warming. With the advance of earth …

The Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (SMRT) thermal emission and backscatter model
was developed to determine uncertainties in forward modeling through intercomparison of …

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 …

The necessity of characterizing snow through objective, physically motivated parameters
has led to new model formulations and new measurement techniques. Consequently …

Great Aletsch Glacier (Grosser Aletschgletscher), the largest glacier in the European Alps,
contains 20% of the entire Swiss ice mass. Therefore, it has been selected as a super …

Accurate snow depth estimation is of significant importance, particularly for preventing
avalanche disasters and predicting flood seasons. The predominant approaches for such …

The shortage of information on snow properties in high latitudes places a major limitation on
permafrost and more generally climate modelling. A dedicated field program was therefore …

We present ground-based Ku-band radar observations of the snow cover on top of the Great
Aletsch Glacier carried out over two observation periods, in August 2021 and in March 2022 …