Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-857-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-857-2017
Research article
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03 Apr 2017
Research article |  | 03 Apr 2017

Mapping snow depth within a tundra ecosystem using multiscale observations and Bayesian methods

Haruko M. Wainwright, Anna K. Liljedahl, Baptiste Dafflon, Craig Ulrich, John E. Peterson, Alessio Gusmeroli, and Susan S. Hubbard

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (20 Feb 2017) by Guillaume Chambon
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Short summary
Snow has a profound impact on permafrost and ecosystem functioning in the Arctic tundra. This paper aims to characterize the variability of end-of-winter snow depth and its relationship to topography in ice-wedge polygon tundra of Arctic Alaska. In addition, we develop a Bayesian geostatistical method to integrate multiscale observational platforms (a snow probe, ground penetrating radar, unmanned aerial system and airborne lidar) for estimating snow depth in high resolution over a large area.