My research interest focus on snow accumulation variability in the Swedish Mountains. I am currently employed as a Post-doc funded by the Swedish National Spaceboard by the project MIMSO (Multi-scale investigations of microwave snowpack observations). The research focus of the MIMSO project is on validation of operational
satellite observations of the snowpack in an upland catchment using in situ
observations that characterize the spatial organization of the snowpack and its
change over the season. We aim to quantify the the local
variability of snow water equivalent (SWE) in the Swedish mountains. From the
information retrieved by MIMSO, we will continue to upscale the measurements to
cover a wider geographic region. The monitoring of the snow properties will be
extended into the melt season to study the ability to identify melt events and
their magnitude. In this continuation we also aim to provide validation for new
missions and provide a basis for the validation of future satellite missions
such as the Sentinels from European Space Agency.
PhD work
I have developed a method to analyse snow grain size digitally in order to retrieve size distribution within samples and with varying spatial and temporal resolution. This method has also been used in field work in northern Sweden in Järämä and Tarfala and is published in AAAR in August 2013 (Ingvander et al., 2013).
During my PhD I participated in, and worked with data collected during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2009 on the Japanese Swedish Antarctic Expedition (JASE; a part of the ITASE International Trans Antarctic Expedition collaboration).
The surface traverse was carried out during the austral summer of 2007-2008. The expedition consisted of two field parties traversing from separate coastal points to a common continental meeting point. Extensive surface sampling of snow properties were conducted to improve our knowledge of the Antarctic surface conditions. Sampling and analysis of snow grain size data with high spatial resolution was conducted for establishing spatial variability of snow properties, and together with other datasets serve as ground truth sampling for remote sensing purposes.
Collabrators
MIMSO prof. Peter Jansson and dr Ian Brown
ISIS dr. Cecilia Johansson
ISIS dr. Cecilia Johansson
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