Demonstration of Data Processing

Rebecca Gugerli 1,2

1Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
2Radar, Satellite and Nowcasting division, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Locarno-Monti, Switzerland

Training course on the cosmic ray neutron sensor technology for

snow water equivalent determination in the Andes and the
Himalaya, February and March 2022
Content
• A full demonstration on the data processing of the measurements at the
site on Findelgletscher in Switzerland.
Findelgletscher
• Latitude 45.99
• Longitude 7.87
• Elevation 3116 m a.s.l.
• Deployment: 9 Oct 2018
 Correction of neutron count rates

Correct raw counts with

Incoming cosmic ray fluxes Barometric pressure

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Correction of neutron count rates
Correct raw counts with

and smooth the corrected neutron counts with a running mean

(e.g., 6 hours) before converting to SWE with
Demonstration
Full demonstration on how to process data from a cosmic ray neutron sensor.

To successfully process the measurements by a cosmic ray neutron sensor, we need

to follow these steps:
1. Download data and import into python
2. Check time steps and eliminate double time steps
3. Download the neutron monitor data: https://www.nmdb.eu/ and import it
4. Correct neutron count rates
5. Calculate SWE from neutron count rate

Continuation on Google Colab.