TY - Generic T1 - Swiss improvements of the FMCW radar for snow measurements T2 - 52nd Annual Western Snow Conference Y1 - 1984 A1 - Schmidt, R.A. A1 - Gubler, H. A1 - Hiller, M. KW - FMCW radar, Snow measurements, Snow water equivalent, Snowpack AB - Low-power electronic circuits that produce greater sweep stability, improve signal-to-noise ratio, and permit remote operation from batteries have enhanced snow measurements with a swept-frequency, X-band radar. If snow depth is determined with 1% accuracy, the system predicts water equivalent of a dry snowpack within 5% of gravimetric measurements. Snow depths up to 6 m, determined by radar, compared well with probed depths. When density was estimated from an empirical depth-density relationship. JF - 52nd Annual Western Snow Conference T3 - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Western Snow Conference PB - Western Snow Conference CY - Sun Valley, Idaho UR - sites/westernsnowconference.org/PDFs/1984Schmidt.pdf ER -