Assessing global satellite-based snow water equivalent datasets in ESA SnowPEx project

There is a significant difference in SWE retrieval performance between the different satellite-based products. The assessment using the Russian and Finnish snow transect data covers an extremely large and varied geographical region and spans a total of ten years (2002-2011). Additionally, the reference data are well suited for assessing coarse resolution data, as they are not point-wise measurements but distributed measurements from the snow transects or snow courses.