G02131
Reconstructed North American, Eurasian, and Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent, 1915-1997
Brown, R. D.
Reconstructed North American, Eurasian, and Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent, 1915-1997
2002-01-01
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5V985Z6
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Ross
D.
Brown
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Investigator
Ross
D.
Brown
ross.brown@ec.gc.ca
1 514 282-6464 x335
1 514-282-713
Environment Canada @ Ouranos
550 Sherbrooke St. West, 19th Floor
Montréal
QC
H3A 1B9
Canada
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Snow/Ice
Snow Cover
Snow Extent
EARTH SCIENCE
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Snow/Ice
Snow Cover
Snow Extent
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
areally-weighted mean snow depth
HDCD
Historical Daily Climate Dataset
linear regression analysis
mean snow depth
North American mid-latitudes
reconstructed
SCE
Snow
Snow Cover
snow cover extent
Snow Depth
Snow Extent
Snow Water Equivalent
SWE
AVHRR
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
VHRR
Very High Resolution Radiometer
GROUND STATIONS
NOAA-4
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-4
NOAA POES
NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites
SATELLITES
1915-01-01
1997-12-31
complete
0
90
-180
180
CONTINENT
NORTH AMERICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
EURASIA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
English
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80309-0449
USA
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NSIDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
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ASCII Text
Brown, R.D. 2000. Northern Hemisphere snow cover variability and change, 1915-1997. J. Climate 13: 2339-2355.
Brown, R.D. 1997. Historical variability in Northern Hemisphere spring snow covered area. Annals of Glaciology 25: 340-346.
Brown, R.D. and R.O. Braaten, 1998. Spatial and temporal variability of Canadian monthly snow depths, 1946-1995. Atmosphere-Ocean 36: 37-45. Easterling, D.R., P. Jamason, D. Bowman, P.Y. Hughes and E. H. Mason. 1997. Daily snowdepth measurements from 195 stations in the United States. ORNL/CDIAC-95, NDP-059.
Frei, A., M.G. Hughes and D.A. Robinson. 1999. North American snow extent: 1910-1994. Int'l. J. Climatology 19: 1517-1534.
This data set contains time series of monthly snow cover extent (SCE) for North America, Eurasia, and the Northern Hemisphere from 1915 to 1997, based on snow cover reconstruction and NOAA satellite data. The reconstruction method used in situ snow depth and daily climate data from the U.S.A., Canada, China, and the former Soviet Union to generate a monthly snow cover index, which was found to be closely related to satellite-derived estimates of SCE in certain months. Brown (2000) describes the method, which is considered to be more robust than SCE reconstruction based on statistical methods (see Brown, 1997; Frei et al., 1999).
In addition, the data set contains time series of annual variation in areally-averaged monthly snow depth and (SWE) for the North American grid domain used to derive the snow cover index. These provide additional insights into secular changes in snow cover over North America since SCE and depth variations are not always positively correlated.
Data are available via FTP.
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Reconstructed North American Snow Extent, 1900-1993
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