Nora Krebs

CR Cryospheric Sciences

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Nora Krebs for the poster/PICO entitled:

Testing four Sentinel (1 and 2) and MODIS Fractional Snow Cover products for the evaluation of five Alpine Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing sites (Krebs, N.; Schattan, P.; Premier, V.; Mejia-Aguilar, A.; Rutzinger, M.)

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Nora Krebs is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research forms part of the Cosmic Sense project, which focusses on advancing the technology of Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing (CRNS) for an application on ambient water monitoring. With her special interest in the cryosphere, she explores the potential of CRNS for the monitoring of snowpack dynamics at stations from low to high altitude. Placing the sensor above the snow surface allows for a signal integration over a large footprint area that is comparable to the spatial resolution of most satellite based observations. Her study presented at EGU explores the link between satellite and CRNS based snow observations and the benefit of their integration for the interpretation of the CRNS signal. The study is titled “Testing four Sentinel (1 and 2) and MODIS Fractional Snow Cover products for the evaluation of five Alpine Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing sites”. It provides a step-by-step guide that can be adopted by related scientists and stages a path towards the assimilation of both data sources.