Nick Rutter

TL;DR: In this article, three snowpack models of varying complexity and purpose were evaluated across a wide range of hydrometeorological and forest canopy conditions at five Northern Hemisphere locations, for up to three months.

TL;DR: The Snow Model Intercomparison Project (SnowMIP2) as mentioned in this paper was designed as an intercomparisons of surface mass and energy balance simulations for snow in forested areas, and participants in 11 countries contributed output from 33 models, and the results are published here for sites in Canada, United States, and Switzerland.

TL;DR: In the field, density cutters overestimate (1 to 6 ǫ%) densities below and underestimate densities above a threshold between 296 to 350 m−m−3, depending on cutter type.

TL;DR: In this article, aerial photography and airborne laser scanning are used to map tree locations, heights, and crown diameters for a lodgepole pine forest in Colorado as inputs to a spatially explicit radiative transfer model.

TL;DR: In this article, detailed physical snow measurements within the radiometer footprints were made to relate the microwave signatures to the seasonal evolution of the snowpack, and provide inputs for model simulations with the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) snow emission model.