ERA5
From variable 3.12
Snow Depth/SWE
- reference Hersbach et al. (2020)
- source
- ECMWF
- data type
- Global atmospheric reanalysis
- spatial domain
- Global
- spatial resolution
- 0.25ᵒ x 0.25ᵒ
- temporal coverage
- 1950 - present
- time step
- Hourly; Monthly
- data format
- GRIB; NetCDF
- comments
- 2D-OI using SYNOP snow depth observations. IMS assimilation for snow extent starting in 2004. HTESSEL land surface scheme (single snow layer). Discontinuity in 2004 with assimilation of IMS-4km snow cover extent (Orsolini et al. 2019; Mortimer et al. 2020).