This February, a NASA-led research campaign called SnowEx kicked off in Colorado. The five-year study will advance global measurements of how much snow is on the ground at any given time and how much liquid water is contained in that snow. The amount of water in snow plays a huge role in water availability for drinking water, agriculture, and hydropower. Teams of 50 researchers are stationed at Grand Mesa and Senator Beck Basin over a three-week period to measure snow using a variety of snow-sensing instruments and techniques. Ground measurements will allow the team to validate the remotely-sensed measurements acquired by multiple sensors on the various aircraft. Data acquired from the SnowEx campaign will be stored at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, and will be available to anyone to order at no cost, as is the case with all NASA data. For more information: www.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions/ Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng Music Credits: "Detective Analysis" by Laurent Dury [SACEM] from Killer Tracks Music This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12511 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Or subscribe to NASA’s Goddard Shorts HD Podcast: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f0004_index.html Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts

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