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

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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
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 1511.362 MB
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Author Kluver, Daria
Mote, Tom
Leathers, Daniel
Henderson, Gina R.
Chan, Weihan
Robinson, David A.
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2017-09-17
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/5BJC-W635
Alternate Identifier d526000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:25:53Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d526000
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. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/5BJC-W635. Accessed 26 October 2025.

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