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there's an enormous void in our

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quantitative knowledge of the mountain

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snowpack and pressure is being put on us

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increasingly to be able to know that

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mountain snowpack because it is our

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so when you fly over the mountains you

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can see snow down there and no snow over

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there

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but you have no idea how deep the snow

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is or how fast its melting the airborne

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snow Observatory gives you the

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information on every patch of snow as to

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how deep it is and how fast it's melting

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and that's key information for water

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managers for ranchers for farmers and

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boaters the list goes on and on airborne

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snow Observatory is two instruments put

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together that look at the surface that

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tell us how deep snow is and how much

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sunlight that snow absorbs and those two

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combined are what control how fast water

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comes out of the mountains and how much

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of that water comes out of the mountains

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from snow we need a mission like the

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airborne snow Observatory because we

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very poorly know how much snow there is

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in the world's mountains and how fast

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that melts and comes out of out those

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rivers

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the airborne snow Observatory is

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providing a wall-to-wall complete

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characterisation regularly through the

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snow melt season so this is this is the