TVCSnow 2018-2019 tundra snow depth probe measurements ...
Snow depth measurements were recorded as part of Environment and Climate Change Canada's 2018-2019 Trail Valley Creek Snow Experiment (TVCSnow 18/19). These snow depths were collected to evaluate coincident airborne and satellite radar measurements to better understand snow-radar interactions i...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.4021401 2024-04-28T08:26:35+00:00 TVCSnow 2018-2019 tundra snow depth probe measurements ... King, Joshua Toose, Peter Arvids Silis Derksen, Chris 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4021401 https://zenodo.org/record/4021401 en eng Zenodo https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4021400 Open Access Open Government Licence - Canada https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada ogl-canada-2.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess snow tundra snow depth TVCSnow magnaprobe magna probe dataset Dataset 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.402140110.5281/zenodo.4021400 2024-04-02T10:54:06Z Snow depth measurements were recorded as part of Environment and Climate Change Canada's 2018-2019 Trail Valley Creek Snow Experiment (TVCSnow 18/19). These snow depths were collected to evaluate coincident airborne and satellite radar measurements to better understand snow-radar interactions in a tundra environment. The snow depths were recorded 50 km north of the town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Three periods of measurement took place in November 2018, January 2019, and March 2019 in and around the Trail Valley Creek research station. The snow depth measurements were recorded with an automatic snow depth probe (magnaprobe). Open Government Licence - Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada) ... : A total of 21,466 measurements were collected in an open tundra environment during three field campaigns that took place November 12th-18th 2018 (6,185 depths), January 11th-20th 2019 (6,740 depths), and March 19th-27th 2019 (8,541 depths). Survey transects of several hundred meters were measured adjacent to excavated snow pits where manual and automated in situ snow measurements of density, specific surface area, snow grain and layering characteristics were recorded. The snow depth measurements were recorded using magnaprobes that can measure both depth and position simultaneously, patented in 1999 (United States Patent 5,864,059, 1999) and produced commercially by SnowHydro LLC. The nature of the substrate beneath the snow controls the snow depth vertical accuracy with errors ranging from near zero for hard bases to +5 cm of over-probe in soft vegetation and the horizontal positional accuracy is typically ±2.5 m using the onboard Wide Area Augmentation System enabled GPS (Sturm and Holmgren, 2018). A 2018 ... Dataset Inuvik Northwest Territories Tundra DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Snow depth measurements were recorded as part of Environment and Climate Change Canada's 2018-2019 Trail Valley Creek Snow Experiment (TVCSnow 18/19). These snow depths were collected to evaluate coincident airborne and satellite radar measurements to better understand snow-radar interactions in a tundra environment. The snow depths were recorded 50 km north of the town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Three periods of measurement took place in November 2018, January 2019, and March 2019 in and around the Trail Valley Creek research station. The snow depth measurements were recorded with an automatic snow depth probe (magnaprobe). Open Government Licence - Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada) ... : A total of 21,466 measurements were collected in an open tundra environment during three field campaigns that took place November 12th-18th 2018 (6,185 depths), January 11th-20th 2019 (6,740 depths), and March 19th-27th 2019 (8,541 depths). Survey transects of several hundred meters were measured adjacent to excavated snow pits where manual and automated in situ snow measurements of density, specific surface area, snow grain and layering characteristics were recorded. The snow depth measurements were recorded using magnaprobes that can measure both depth and position simultaneously, patented in 1999 (United States Patent 5,864,059, 1999) and produced commercially by SnowHydro LLC. The nature of the substrate beneath the snow controls the snow depth vertical accuracy with errors ranging from near zero for hard bases to +5 cm of over-probe in soft vegetation and the horizontal positional accuracy is typically ±2.5 m using the onboard Wide Area Augmentation System enabled GPS (Sturm and Holmgren, 2018). A 2018 ... |
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