Daily Gridded North American Snowfall

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.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1900-01-01
    End:  2009-12-31

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1900-01-01
Temporal Range End 2009-12-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 3972 MB
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Access Constraints Registration on the RDA web site is a requirement for access to the data.
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Chi-Fan Shih
Resource Support Email chifan@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Kluver, Daria
Mote, Tom
Leathers, Daniel
Henderson, Gina R.
Chan, Weihan
Robinson, David A.
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2017-09-17
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/5BJC-W635
Alternate Identifier ds526.0
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-01-03T15:11:45-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds526.0
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Kluver, Daria, Mote, Tom, Leathers, Daniel, Henderson, Gina R., Chan, Weihan, Robinson, David A.. (2017). Daily Gridded North American Snowfall. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/5BJC-W635. Accessed 24 April 2024.

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