Snow Cover Fraction (SCF) is defined as the fraction of land area covered by snow. Snow has a very high albedo, which participates to cool the Earth surface. As a consequence, snow cover is an important variable as it directly affects the Earth’s energy balance. It is of major concern for various fields such as…
Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) is the amount of water contained within the snowpack. In other terms, it is the depth of water that would theoretically result from instantaneous snowpack melting. SWE is correlated with snowpack depth and snow density. It is an important variable for different applications such as water stocks monitoring and flood events…
Snow depth is the total depth of the snowpack. It allows to estimate the amount of snow covering the ground. Snow depth and snow water equivalent are two linked variables. They are both very important variables for different applications such as water stocks monitoring and flood events forecasting. Snow depth can be manually measured or…
