Validating CloudSat-CPR retrievals for the estimation of snow accumulation in the Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: King, Fraser
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2019
• Subjects: CloudSat; Arctic; snow; station; in situ; comparison; CPR; remote sensing; reanalysis; radar; Canada; NASA; CSA; satellite; clouds; SWE; Eureka; Resolute Bay; albedo; Climate change
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14736

Snow is a critical contributor to our global water and energy budget, with profound impacts for water resource availability, snow albedo feedback and flooding in cold regions. The vast size and remote nature of the Arctic present serious logistical and financial challenges to measuring snow over ext...