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SNOTEL and cooperative observer networks
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Description
Comprehensive deployment of precipitation, atmospheric, and surface energy budget sensors across elevation and topographic gradients in complex terrain. Network includes core sites with full instrument suites and secondary sites with targeted measurements to characterize spatial variability.
Typical Equipment
- Snow-Level Radar (SLR)
- precipitation gauges
- disdrometers
- ASSIST/AERI
- ceilometer
- microwave radiometer
- Doppler lidar
- mobile SURFRAD
- flux towers
- radiometers
- scanning dual-polarization X-band radar system
- 3-meter snow stakes
- time-lapse cameras
- temperature sensors
- humidity sensors
Output Measurements
- precipitation rate
- snow depth
- air temperature
- humidity
- wind speed
- radiative fluxes
- turbulent fluxes
- atmospheric profiles
Papers Using This Protocol (6)
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The short life of upvalley wind in a high-altitude valley in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
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Supporting advancement in weather and water prediction in the upper Colorado River Basin: The SPLASH campaign
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The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign
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The East River Community Observatory Data Collection: Diverse, multiscale data from a mountainous watershed in the East River, Colorado
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Challenges in Building an End-to-End System for Acquisition, Management, and Integration of Diverse Data From Sensor Networks in Watersheds: Lessons From a Mountainous Community Observatory in East River, Colorado
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