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NGWOS Ground Based Discrete Snowpack Measurements

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2020
End Date
2022

Citation

McDermott, W.R., Sexstone, G.A., Penn, C.A., Lampard, T.D., Morel, D.B., Gholson, J.M., Homan, J.W., Gohring, E.J., Akie, G.A., Creighton, A.L., Hennessy, E.K., and Hall, N.G., 2023, NGWOS Ground Based Discrete Snowpack Measurements: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9NU5PV8.

Summary

Ground-based discrete snowpack measurements were collected during winter field campaigns starting in 2020. These data were collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) Upper Colorado River Basin project focusing on the relation between snow dynamics and water resources. This data release consists of three child items. Each child item contains snow depth, snow density, snow temperature, or snow water equivalent values measured discretely in the field. The data are provided in comma separated value (CSV) files.

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Contacts

Point of Contact :
William R Mcdermott
Originator :
William R Mcdermott, Graham A Sexstone, Colin A Penn, Tyler D Lampard, Duncan B Morel, Jon M Gholson, Joel W Homan, Evan J Gohring, Garrett A Akie, Andrea L Creighton, Erin K Hennessy, Nicholas G Hall
Metadata Contact :
William R Mcdermott
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Colorado Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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Purpose

These measurements were utilized to ground-truth newer technologies including ground penetrating radar, software defined radar based on uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), and light detection and ranging (lidar) collected from UAS.

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