C039
Using NASA SnowEx Data for Algorithm Development and Modeling to Estimate Seasonal Snow and Snow Water Equivalent

Session ID#: 162184

Session Description:
With climate change threatening norms for seasonal snow, the NASA SnowEx campaign aims to improve global snow remote sensing and enable snow satellite mission development for determination of snow water equivalent (SWE).  More accurate and timely estimates of SWE are needed to quantify global water and energy balances and improve meltwater and natural hazard forecasting.  The community-led SnowEx effort is conducting multi-year, multi-sensor seasonal snow campaigns, targeting different snow classes to collect a range of coincident in situ and remotely sensed observations.  The overarching objective is to enable snow satellite mission development by quantifying the SWE retrieval performance of candidate approaches through observations and modeling.  We invite contributions on results and developmental milestones from collaborative efforts using the publicly available SnowEx data.  We encourage submissions that compare coincident datasets, or investigate sensor capabilities and limitations across a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0770 Properties [CRYOSPHERE]
0798 Modeling [CRYOSPHERE]

Primary Convener:  Megan Mason, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States
Conveners:  Dorothy Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Carrie Vuyovich, University of New Hampshire, Hanover, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
 
Airborne SAR (UAVSAR) and machine learning accurately predict snow density (1059489)
Ahmad Hojatimalekshah, Boise State University, Department of Computer Science, Boise, ID, United States, Tate Meehan, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, Nancy F Glenn, Boise State Univ, Boise, ID, United States, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Christopher Hiemstra, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Jim P McNamara, Boise State Univ, Boise, United States and Catherine Olschanowsky, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
 
Optimizing InSAR and optical data fusion for tracking changes in snow water equivalent (1089558)
Jack Tarricone, University of Nevada, Reno, Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, Karl Rittger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Anne Walden Nolin, University of Nevada Reno, Geography, Reno, United States and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
 
2023 SnowEx field campaign in Alaska, U.S. (1090290)
Carrie Vuyovich1, Svetlana L. Stuefer2, Hans-Peter Marshall3, Michael T Durand4, Kelly Elder5, Dragos A Vas6, Batuhan Osmanoglu1, Arthur Gelvin7, Chris Larsen8, Daniel J. Hodkinson9, Elias J Deeb10, Anne Walden Nolin11, Kelly Gleason12, Megan Mason13 and Stine Pedersen14, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (3)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (4)Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, United States, (7)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States, (11)University of Nevada Reno, Geography, Reno, United States, (12)Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, (13)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Boise, United States, (14)Colorado State University, Anchorage, United States
 
Assessment of ICESat-2 Surface Heights Over Grand Mesa, CO and Fairbanks, AK in Support of the SnowEx Mission (1110261)
Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States, Carrie Vuyovich, University of New Hampshire, Hanover, United States and Zachary Fair, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Predicting Multi-Polarization Low Frequency SAR Backscatter From Snow Using Machine Learning Models. (1117040)
Naheem Adebisi, Boise State University, Department of Computer Science, Boise, United States, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States and Shad O'Neel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Boise, United States
 
Quantifying Snow Covered Area and Snow Depth in a Prairie Environment Using UAVSAR Data (1118248)
Ross Palomaki1, Sam Neitlich2,3, Karen An4 and Eric A Sproles1, (1)Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Evaluating Changes in SWE from 2020–21 NASA UAVSAR with Ground-Penetrating Radar at Cameron Pass, Colorado (1131531)
Randall Bonnell1, Daniel McGrath2, Hans-Peter Marshall3, Jack Tarricone4, Ryan Webb5,6, Tate Meehan7, Lucas Zeller8, Ella Bump9, Caroline Duncan10 and Alex Olsen-Mikitowicz9, (1)Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States, (3)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (4)University of Nevada, Reno, Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, (5)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (7)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (8)Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (9)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (10)Colorado State University, Watershed Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Contributions of SWESARR to SnowEx (1160506)
Batuhan Osmanoglu1, Martin L Perrine2, Carrie Vuyovich2, Derek l Hudson1, Elodie Macorps2 and SWESARR Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Reynolds Mountain East SnowEx2020 Dataset and Initial Research Findings (1164601)
Ernesto Trujillo1, Andrew R Hedrick2, Frederick B. Pierson2, Shad O'Neel3 and Hans-Peter Marshall1, (1)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (2)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (3)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Boise, United States
 
SWE Retrieval Analysis Using SnowEx 2017 Airborne SnowSAR Data (1166361)
Edward J Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Do-Hyuk DK Kang, NOAA, Silver Spring, United States, Firoz Kanti Borah, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Leung Tsang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
 
An Improved X and Ku Band SWE Retrieval Algorithm and Validation Analysis Using Airborne Data (1170761)
Leung Tsang1, Michael T Durand2, Edward J Kim3, Firoz Kanti Borah4, Do-Hyuk DK Kang5, Joel Johnson6, Ana Paula Barros7, Paul Siqueira8, Mehmet Kurum9, Paul Houser10, Batuhan Osmanoglu3, Hans-Peter Marshall11, Sujay V Kumar12 and Carrie Vuyovich13, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada, (6)Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Columbus, United States, (7)University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, (8)University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, United States, (9)Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States, (10)George Mason University Fairfax, Geography and Geoinformation Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States, (11)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (13)University of New Hampshire, Hanover, United States
 
Time series of L-band InSAR for Evaluation of Coherence and SWE Estimation from SnowEx in Preparation for NISAR. (1182488)
Richard R Forster, University of Utah, Department of Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Jewell Lund, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Elias J Deeb, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
 
High-resolution spatial and temporal snow distribution trends over CONUS (1990-2021) (1194145)
Ross Mower, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Ethan D Gutmann, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Glen E Liston, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Fort Collins, CO, United States, Lundquist Jessica, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Andrew James Newman, NCAR, Boulder, United States, Adele Reinking, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Kristi R Arsenault, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Melissa Wrzesien, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, NC, United States, Carrie Vuyovich, University of New Hampshire, Hanover, United States, Barton A Forman, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Soren Rasmussen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Influence of Shallow Snow Spatial Variability on Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing Estimates of Snow Water Equivalent in a Prairie Environment (1198602)
Samuel E Tuttle, Boston University, Boston, United States, Madison Woodley, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, Eric A Sproles, Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States and Jed Eberly, Montana State University, Central Agricultural Research Center, Bozeman, United States
 
Snow Specific Surface Area: Margins of Error, Best Methods, and Interpretation of In-Situ Measurements Using the IceCube, an Integrating Sphere (1202864)
Kaitlin Meyer, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States and Zoe Courville, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States
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