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Daily Gridded North American Snowfall

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| DOI: 10.5065/5BJC-W635
 
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Abstract:

A daily gridded North American snowfall data with focus on the quality of the interpolated product is archived in this dataset. Daily snowfall amounts from National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program stations and Meteorological Service of Canada surface stations are interpolated to 1 degree by 1 degree grids and examined for data record length and quality. The interpolation is validated spatially and temporally through the use of stratified sampling and k-fold cross-validation analyses. Interpolation errors average around 0.5 cm and range from less than 0.01 to greater than 2.5 cm. For most locations, this is within the measurement sensitivity. Grid cells with large variations in elevation experience higher errors and should be used with caution.

Temporal Range:
1900-01-01 to 2009-12-31 (Entire dataset) Period details by dataset product
Variables:
Snow
Data Types:
Platform Observation
Data Contributors:
USDA/NRCS/NWCC
National Water and Climate Center, National Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture
Publications:
Kluver, Daria, Tom Mote, Daniel Leathers, Gina R. Henderson, Weihan Chan, and David A. Robinson, 2016: Creation and Validation of a Comprehensive 1 degree by 1 degree Daily Gridded North American Dataset for 1900-2009: Snowfall Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33(5), 857-871 (DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0027.1).

Total Volume:
1.51 GB (Entire dataset) Volume details by dataset product
Data Formats:
netCDF
Metadata Record:
Data License:
Data LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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