Measuring snow in the western U.S. using GPS data from the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory

Top: Weekly photograph for PBO site P360 in Island Park, Idaho.
Bottom: Accumulated snow at P360 calculated using reflected GPS signals from the PBO H2O group. This technique is now used to measure snow accumulation at ~180 PBO sites.

More information about PBO H2O can be found at http://xenon.colorado.edu/portal

This video was submitted by Kristine Larson

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