SnowEx

Dec. 29, 2019

For a better understanding of how much water is contained in each winter’s snowfall and how much will be available when it melts in the spring, NASA has launched a seasonal campaign — part of a five-year programme called SnowEx, initiated in 2016-17.

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  • SnowEx is a five year program initiated and funded by NASA.

  • The goal is to address the most important gaps in our snow remote sensing knowledge, and thus lay the groundwork for a future snow satellite mission

  • The geographical focus of SnowEx is proposed as North America, which contains the six broad snow climate categories identified in the literature: tundra (alpine or Arctic), taiga (Boreal forest), warm (temperate) forest, maritime, prairie, and ephemeral.

  • Within its geographic range, SnowEx assesses where snow has fallen, how much there is and how its characteristics change as it melts. 

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