SNOWCOP

⛰️ Small Grants Project 2023 of the Week: Snow monitoring in the Argentinean and Chilean Andes Cordillera (HR-SCA-SWE-Andes) 🌍 The project, led by Dr. Carlo Marin, combined multi-source remote sensing and in-situ observations to develop daily snow-cover area (SCA) and snow water equivalent (SWE) data across four basins of the Cordillera which are crucial in terms of water resources. 👉 Discover the outputs: https://loom.ly/2Gc81CM #EO4Impact #EO4Mountains #GEOMountains #SnowMonitoring #Andes #OurChangingMountains Eurac Research Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Adaptation at Altitude GCW Global Cryosphere Watch (WMO) Group on Earth Observations (GEO) AmeriGEO Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)

𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 ✈ Last week a series of lectures and seminars have been presented in the framework of the project MRI Andes, a project of six months founded by a small grant of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI). The main objective of the project is to reconstruct snow water equivalent (SWE) time-series for some important basins in the Andes Cordillera, as the Rio Aconcagua and Maipo in Chile and Rio Mendoza and Tunuyan in Argentina.   👨🏫 👩🏫 Our researchers Carlo Marin and Valentina Premier spent one week in Santiago at the Universidad de Chile and one week in Mendoza at IANIGLA - CONICET (Argentina). There, they presented the SWE reconstruction method based on remote sensing observation that will be applied to the Andes.   ❄ Furthermore, they presented other important activities related to the cryosphere group (many thanks to Riccardo Barella and Nicola Ciapponi for their contribution), as snow cover fraction retrieval, fusion of high and low resolution optical images for improving snow cover area (SCA) estimation and calorimeter measurements to measure liquid water content (LWC) in the snowpack.   🙏 Our researchers were happy and grateful for this great chance to present their research activities to a wide audience consisting both of students and young researchers. Furthermore, they could exchange with more experienced researchers the first results of the project. 🤝 We acknowledge support from GEO Mountains under the Adaptation at Altitude Programme (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Project Number: 7F-10208.01.02). 📰 Here you can find a recent 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 on the topic: https://lnkd.in/d9bn6Cyp #snow #SWE #snowcover #andes

📣 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐜𝐤-𝐨𝐟𝐟 📅 On October 23 and 24, we hosted the kick-off of the EU Horizon Europe funded project SNOWCOP.   🏔 💧 The project aims at improving the quantification of meltwater and ice in the Andes and beyond by unlocking the full potential of European Copernicus data and infrastructure.   Eurac Research is leading the project with Carlo Marin as the project manager, along with Valentina Premier and Riccardo Barella.   🤝 Our partners VITO (Jeroen Dries) Universidad de Chile (James McPhee) ANavS GmbH – Advanced Navigation Solutions (Patrick Henkel, Markus Lamm) IANIGLA - CONICET (Mariano Masiokas, Leandro Cara, Lucas Ruiz e Toum Ezequiel) Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) (Carolina Adler) 📷 Annelie Bortolotti/Eurac Research

🎯𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐒𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐂𝐎𝐏❓ 💦❄️🧊 The main objective is to improve the quantification of meltwater from snow and ice in the Andes and beyond by unlocking the full potential of EU Copernicus Data and Infrastructure. Our specific objectives are: 🎯Develop and evaluate a new high-resolution snow water equivalent (SWE) and ice melting re-analysis dataset for the extra-tropical Andes; 🎯Capitalize on the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) to foster innovation and excellence in the development of Copernicus- and EGNSS-based solutions for water management in mountainous regions; 🎯Enhance the capacity and raise awareness of Copernicus- and EGNSS-based applications among stakeholders in the water management sector in mountainous regions; 🎯Leverage cascade funding to attract additional investments from Europe and beyond for developing innovative water management solutions tailored to mountainous regions. 🤝We are looking forward to reach these objectives with our partners Institute for Earth Observation – Eurac Research VITO Universidad de Chile ANavS GmbH – Advanced Navigation Solutions IANIGLA - CONICET Mountain Research Initiative (MRI)