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However, most previous studies mainly used GPS L1C\/A and L2C Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) data to retrieve snow depth. In this paper, snow depth variations are retrieved from new weak GPS L2P SNR data at three stations in Alaska and evaluated by comparing with in situ measurements. The correlation coefficients for the three stations are 0.79, 0.88 and 0.98, respectively. The GPS-estimated snow depths from the L2P SNR data are further compared with L1C\/A results at three stations, showing a high correlation of 0.94, 0.93 and 0.95, respectively. These results indicate that geodetic GPS observations with SNR L2P data can well estimate snow depths. The samplings of 15 s or 30 s have no obvious effect on snow depth estimation using GPS SNR L2P measurements, while the range of 5\u00b0\u201335\u00b0elevation angles has effects on results with a decreasing correlation of 0.96 and RMSE of 0.04 m when compared to the range of 5\u00b0\u201330\u00b0 with correlation of 0.98 and RMSE of 0.03 m. GPS SNR data below 30\u00b0 elevation angle are better to estimate snow depth.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8010063","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,1,16]],"date-time":"2016-01-16T03:30:25Z","timestamp":1452915025000},"page":"63","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":80,"title":["Snow Depth Variations Estimated from GPS-Reflectometry: A Case Study in Alaska from L2P SNR Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5108-4828","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuanggen","family":"Jin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Key Laboratory of Space Navigation and Positioning Techniques, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"Department of Geomatics Engineering, Bulent Ecevit University, Zonguldak 67100, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaodong","family":"Qian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Key Laboratory of Space Navigation and Positioning Techniques, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100047, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hakan","family":"Kutoglu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geomatics Engineering, Bulent Ecevit University, Zonguldak 67100, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,1,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"345","DOI":"10.1029\/1998GL900321","article-title":"Eurasian snow cover variability and Northern Hemisphere climate predictability","volume":"26","author":"Cohen","year":"1999","journal-title":"Geophys. 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