Improving the snowpack monitoring in the mountainous areas of Sweden from space: a machine learning approach

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Zhang, Jie, Pohjola, Veijo A, Pettersson, Rickard, Norell, Björn, Marchand, Wolf-Dietrich, Clemenzi, Ilaria, Gustafsson, David
• Other Authors: VINNOVA, Energimyndigheten
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2021
• Subjects: Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfe8d; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abfe8d; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abfe8d/pdf

Abstract Under a warming climate, an improved understanding of the water stored in snowpacks is becoming increasingly important for hydropower planning, flood risk assessment and water resource management. Due to inaccessibility and a lack of ground measurement networks, accurate quantification of s...