Global Atlas of Fraction of Snowfall in Forest

Global Atlas of Fraction of Snowfall in Forest (FSF)

The FSF (FSF_11km.tif) is the product of the fraction of snowfall (Snowfall_Fraction*) from ERA5-Land (Muñoz Sabater et al., 2019) with the tree cover (TreeCover_11km.tif) from Hansen et al. (2013).

Digital elevation model (DEM_11km.tif) from the Copernicus GLO30 product and Köppen-Geiger climate (Koppen_11km.tif) are also provided on the same grid as FSF.

The FSF is also averaged per hydrological basin of level 3 in the HydroBasin dataset (Lehner et al., 2013) and mountain range (Snethlage et al., 2022) respectively in data_hybas.geojson and data_gmba.geojson.

References

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Kottek, M., Grieser, J., Beck, C., Rudolf, B., & Rubel, F. (2006). World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 15(3), 259–263. https://doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0130

Lehner, B., & Grill, G. (2013). Global river hydrography and network routing: baseline data and new approaches to study the world’s large river systems. Hydrological Processes, 27(15), 2171–2186. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9740

Muñoz Sabater, J. (2019). ERA5-Land monthly averaged data from 1981 to present [Data set]. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). https://doi.org/doi:10.24381/cds.68d2bb30

Snethlage, Mark A., Geschke, J., Ranipeta, A., Jetz, W., Yoccoz, N. G., Körner, C., et al. (2022). A hierarchical inventory of the world’s mountains for global comparative mountain science. Scientific Data, 9(1), 149. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01256-y