This paper by Nick Rutter looks at how snow microstructure varies spatially and its impact on retrievals of snow water equivalent from Ku-band radar retrievals https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3045-2019
HUT extinction coefficient model
HUT model has now been adapted to be able to use snow specific surface area (SSA) measurements! The HUT model was originally designed to use traditional grain size measurements made with a microscope, but these were observer-dependent. SSA are objective observations so this progress removes some uncertainty in interpreting remote…
SMRT paper
Check out the open-access published paper describing the SMRT model here: https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/11/2763/2018/
CORES featured in Nature
29/3/2017. An article on flexible working and independent scientists was published today in Nature. Both Mel Sandells and Cecile Menard from CORES were interviewed by Amber Dance to discuss the implications of becoming freelance, the purpose of organizations such as CORES and access to funding for independent scientists in the UK. The…
ESA SCADAS project funded
10/2016. CORES is one of the partners in the project team awarded ESA funding for the SnowSAR Campaign Data Analysis Study (SCADAS). Our team will work on high resolution distributed snow simulations and snow microwave emission models. The project partners are the Finnish Meteorological Institute (PI), ENVEO Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH,…
Publication in The Cryosphere
27/01/2017. A study led by CORES’ Dr Mel Sandells is published in The Cryosphere. The research investigated a wide range of options for simulating sensor signals for satellite monitoring of water stored as snow, through an ensemble of 1323 coupled snow evolution and microwave scattering models. It stemmed from a collaboration…
GI Special Issue complete
22/11/2016. The special issue “Multi-disciplinary research and integrated monitoring at the Sodankylä research station: from sub-surface to upper atmosphere processes” is now complete. It was guest edited by CORES’ Dr. Cecile Menard, and researchers from the Finnish Meteorological Institute and The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). Twenty-one papers covering the…
Discussion paper in The Cryosphere
03/08/2016. A paper stemming from the collaboration between researchers from CORES, the University of Edinburgh, Northumbria University and the Finnish Meteorological Institute was published in The Cryosphere last week. The study looks at a wide range of options for simulating sensor signals for satellite monitoring of water stored as snow,…
Second CORES publication in GI special issue
16/06/2016. The first complete dataset derived from measurements for driving and evaluating snow models at an Arctic site is described in a publication led by Dr Richard Essery, University of Edinburgh, in the Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data special issue on research at the station in Sodankylä. The work is…
New CORES publication
14/04/2016. A paper co-authored by Dr Melody Sandells was published today in Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems in a special issue on research conducted at the Sodankylä research station, Finnish lapland. The first author, PhD candidate William Maslanka from the University of Reading, is supervised by Dr Sandells, CORES…