Finding Water in Snow

Flying over the Sierras in a Twin Otter aircraft, NASA scientists are finding new ways to measure the amount of water stored in the winter snowpack with greater accuracy than ever before.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Robert Simmon, using data from Thomas Painter and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published April 3, 2014
Data acquired April 21, 2013

Sources:

Aircraft Sensors

Landsat 8 > OLI

Topic:

Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Water Equivalent