Example Use Cases

Ice Sheets

• Lorne, Antarctica

• Dye2, Greenland

• Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica

• Summit Camp, Greenland

• Phoenix, Antarctica

Lakes, Reservoirs, and Rivers

• Michipicoten, Canada

• Lake Taupo, New Zealand

• Steenbras, South Africa

• St Lawrence River,Canada

• Lake Mathews, Riverside, USA

• Lake Malawi, Tanzania

• Lake Yellowstone, USA

• Guaiba Lake, Brazil (low-cost)

• Wesel, Germany (low-cost)

Soil Moisture

• Portales, New Mexico USA

• Mitchell, Australia

• Victorville, California USA

• Boulder, Colorado USA

Seasonal Snow Accumulation

• Marshall, Colorado USA

• Niwot Ridge, Colorado USA

• Half Island Park, Idaho USA

• Utqiagvik, Alaska USA

Tides

• Friday Harbor, Washington USA

• St Michael, Alaska USA

• Vlissingen, the Netherlands

• Puerto Penasco, Mexico

• Elbe River, Germany

About 75% of these use cases use access to the Earthscope/UNAVCO archive. In some cases, sopac can be used as an alternate archive. If at all possible, you should sign up for an EarthScope account.

Some of these use cases were created with an earlier version of the gnssrefl software. The plots might look slightly different and the defaults we used in the analysis might have changed.

GPS Tool Box Demonstration

• MNIS (not finished)

Homeworks from Previous Shortcourses:

• Homework 0: Make sure you have properly installed the software

• Homework 1: Practice setting your azimuth and elevation angle mask

• Homework 2: Learn how to measure snow surface variations

  • Homework 2 Solution

• Homework 3: Learn how to measure water levels

  • Homework 3 Solution