USDA snow courses
From variable 3.12
Snow Depth/SWE
- description of data http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/
- description of data http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/webmap/index.html
- source
- NRCS/US Dept. of Agriculture
- data type
- Station data
- spatial domain
- Western US, Canada, and Alaska
- spatial resolution
- Point data; 1,111 courses concentrated in mountains of western USA, Canada and Alaska
- temporal coverage
- 1935--
- time step
- Monthly
- data format
- None
- comments
- Manually measured snow courses. Online data updated monthly; Data used for monthly water supply forecasts. Data available at monthly timestep, from January to June. Contact Mike Strobel (michael.strobel@por.usda.gov)