An empirical approach towards characterization of dry snowlayers using GNSS-R

We present in this paper an empirical approach for the characterization of the internal layering of dry snow masses by means of GNSS-R. A forward model has been designed for reconstructing reflected waveforms given a dry snow profile and geometry (elevation and elevation-rate), as a sum of multiple responses from different layers. To extract the internal information, Fourier transforms of time series of waveforms are computed to generate lag-holograms. The frequency stripes that appear are related to the depths of the contributing snow layers. The same analysis has been done with real data, showing with agreement with the models.