Since 2015 I have been involved in the development and evaluation of the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (SMRT) Model (Picard, Sandells and Löwe, 2018). This is a modular model that simulations microwave behaviour in snow, land ice and sea ice can be applied to interpret passive, active and altimetry remote sensing observations. One interesting aspect is how we measure snow microstructure and use that information in SMRT.

Projects I'm currently involved in are:

• AKROSS: evaluation of SMRT in altimetry mode with fieldwork in Eureka, Canada to understand how snow affects retrievals of sea ice thickness
• AESOP: potential use of SMRT to remove influence of snow on satellite observations used in numerical weather prediction
• SCANSAS: dual active-passive evaluation of SMRT with new data from the Swiss Alps.

• Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
• SMRT: an active–passive microwave radiative transfer modelfor snow with multiple microstructure and scatteringformulations (v1.0), Picard, G., Sandells, M., Löwe, H. Jul 2018, In: Geoscientific Model Development
• Snow Ensemble Uncertainty Project (SEUP): quantification of snow water equivalent uncertainty across North America via ensemble land surface modeling, Kim, R., Kumar, S., Vuyovich, C., Houser, P., Lundquist, J., Mudryk, L., Durand, M., Kim, E., Barros, A., Forman, B., Gutmann, E., Wrzesien, M., Garnaud, C., Sandells, M., Marshall, H., Cristea, N., Pflug, J., Johnston, J., Cao, Y., Mocko, D., Wang, S. 17 Feb 2021, In: The Cryosphere
• Derivation and Evaluation of a New Extinction Coefficient for use with the n-HUT Snow Emission Model, Maslanka, W., Sandells, M., Gurney, R., Lemmetyinen, J., Leppänen, L., Kontu, A., Matzl, M., Rutter, N., Watts, T., Kelly, R. 1 Oct 2019, In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• Differences Between the HUT Snow Emission Model and MEMLS and Their Effects on Brightness Temperature Simulation, Pan, J., Durand, M., Sandells, M., Lemmetyinen, J., Kim, E., Pulliainen, J., Kontu, A., Derksen, C. Apr 2016, In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Harry Clayton 'Remote Sensing of Snow for Improvement of Weather Forecasts' Start Date: 01/10/2021 End Date: 07/08/2022