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CRYOSPHERE
卷 12, 期 5, 页码 1579-1594出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-1579-2018
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- NASA [NNX12AJ87G, NNX15AT01G]
- U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory [W913E5-16-C-0013]
- Microsoft Research for computing and storage on Microsoft Azure
- NASA [802101, NNX15AT01G, 43428, NNX12AJ87G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
In the mountains, snowmelt often provides most of the runoff. Operational estimates use imagery from optical and passive microwave sensors, but each has its limitations. An accurate approach, which we validate in Afghanistan and the Sierra Nevada USA, reconstructs spatially distributed snow water equivalent (SWE) by calculating snowmelt backward from a remotely sensed date of disappearance. However, reconstructed SWE estimates are available only retrospectively; they do not provide a forecast. To estimate SWE throughout the snowmelt season, we consider physiographic and remotely sensed information as predictors and reconstructed SWE as the target. The period of analysis matches the AMSR-E radiometer's lifetime from 2003 to 2011, for the months of April through June. The spatial resolution of the predictions is 3.125 km, to match the resolution of a microwave brightness temperature product. Two machine learning techniques - bagged regression trees and feed-forward neural networks - produced similar mean results, with 0-14% bias and 46-48 mm RMSE on average. Nash-Sutcliffe efficiencies averaged 0.68 for all years. Daily SWE climatology and fractional snow-covered area are the most important predictors. We conclude that these methods can accurately estimate SWE during the snow season in remote mountains, and thereby provide an independent estimate to forecast runoff and validate other methods to assess the snow resource.
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