Rand Corporation Mean Monthly Global Snow Depth
  Data Contributors
- SCHULTZ, CHARLES
- BREGMAN, L. D.
Parameters
- SNOW
- SNOW COVER
- SNOW DEPTH
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Documentation Access Data
All available monthly snow depth climatologies were integrated
by the Rand Corporation, in the early 1980s, into one global (excluding Africa
and South America) digital data set gridded at 4° latitude
x 5°
longitude. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers monthly climatologies were a primary
data source. For data-sparse areas such as China, Greenland, the Arctic and
Antarctica, special Rand methodologies were used: empirical evaluation of total
precipitation, weather source regions, latitude, temperature, terrain and annual snow depth data. Monthly ice-pack limits from U.S. Navy Oceanographic Office
were used to extend the zero snow accumulation line over the oceans. These
mean monthly data can be used strictly as a climatological summary or for systematic
comparison with simulations from any general circulation model (GCM), or for
initiating GCM calculations. Data report copies are also available. The global
grid is too coarse to pick up snow accumulation in Africa and South America,
but no more than two grid points are involved in these areas.
Data CitationRand Corporation. 1995. Rand Corporation's global monthly snow depth. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
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